Michael Essien Ebola reports are fake, claim AC Milan

Ex-Chelsea ace Michael Essien bizarrely found himself at the centre of a cruel hoax after a report surfaced that the Ghanaian midfielder had contracted Ebola.

Online Nigerian newspaper, NewsWireNGR, were seemingly duped by tweets from Twitter user @YuryAlkaev – who claims to be a sports journalist – reporting that AC Milan had confirmed that Essien had caught the killer disease.

However, after the story started to create a stir on social media, AC Milan sources quickly moved to scotch the claims, insisting any reports are fake and that no interviews had been given to Nigerian media.

His comments were reported by NewsWireNGR and redistributed across the web. Metro (UK)