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  "path": "/2026/05/27/india-reports-first-suspected-ebola-case-woman-travels-uganda-28540308/",
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  "textContent": "An Ebola outbreak has spread accross the DRC and Uganda (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)\n\nA 28-year-old woman who travelled to the Indian city of Bengaluru from Uganda has been placed in quarantine with a suspected case of Ebola.\n\nEarlier this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) stated an epidemic of Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda was a ‘public health emergency of international concern.’\n\nLocal authorities reported that the woman developed a mild body ache shortly after arriving in India. It was reported she had also transited through Ahmedabad in western India.\n\nThe National Institute of Virology for testing has confirmed that the woman’s test returned negative for Ebola.\n\nSimilarly, Anul Kumar Banagar, the medical superintendent of the state-run Epidemic Diseases Hospital, reported that she had shown no Ebola symptoms at the Indian airport after a screening.\n\nHowever, for precautions, health officials have said she will isolate for 48 hours. She will only be released when she has tested negative for the disease a second time.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nA 28-year-old woman with suspected Ebola travelled to the Indian city of Bengaluru (Picture: Getty Images)\n\nThe Hindu quoted Dr Banagar: ‘The District Surveillance team and airport health officials were tracking her condition. She developed a mild body ache nearly 24 hours later, following which samples were collected and sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.’\n\nThe doctor explained that even if the woman tests negative, protocol states a ‘repeat test will be conducted after 48 hours of observation.’\n\nHe reiterated: ‘She will be discharged only after testing negative twice.’\n\nThis potential spread comes after approximately 220 Ebola deaths were reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak was announced earlier this month.\n\nReports suggest the outbreak started several days or weeks before the Congolese authorities declared it.\n\nThen, Ugandan health authorities reported on Monday that two new Ebola cases had been confirmed, increasing the number of infections to seven.\n\nAll have been linked to the outbreak in neighbouring Congo.\n\nConflict in the DRC is compromising health workers response (Picture: Getty Images)\n\nA ‘rare’ Ebola strain with no cure could also be in Europe, after a health alert was issued in northern Italy after two aid workers developed Ebola-like symptoms.\n\nThe aid workers, who returned to Lombardy after a three-month trip to Uganda, are now presenting with symptoms consistent with the disease, including fever, nausea, vomiting, and intestinal problems.\n\nThe workers have been transferred to a hospital in Milan, which is equipped to deal with high-risk infectious diseases.\n\nMeanwhile, Lombardy’s regional welfare minister has attempted to stop worries that the deadly disease could spread.\n\nHe told a press conference: ‘There is still no certainty that this is Ebola. We are hopeful that they will be negative.’\n\nThe risk to the public remains low.\n\nHowever, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the ongoing conflict has been compromising the outbreak response.\n\nIturi Province, in the northeast of the country, where most of the cases have been reported, has been under military rule since 2021.\n\nThe civilian authority was replaced by a military general to help disable the armed groups that operate in the region.\n\nThe WHO has called the outbreak a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)\n\nDespite this military rule, violence in the region has continued and intensified. Attacks by residents on makeshift hospitals in Ituri have risen in the last week.\n\nThis weekend, at least 18 people possibly infected with Ebola fled a hospital after it was attacked multiple times by grieving families.\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation, said that the east of the DRC was at the centre of a ‘catastrophic collision of disease and conflict’ as the outbreak outpaced the response.\n\nHe said stopping the spread in the region ‘depends entirely on humanitarian access.’\n\nHowever, Dr Ghebreyesus stated that ‘ongoing clashes are driving mass displacement, pushing exposed contacts into overcrowded camps and severing critical containment corridors.’\n\nHe added that frontline workers are ‘risking everything, while attacks on health facilities make tracking cases and their contacts nearly impossible.’\n\n##  What is Ebola?\n\nEbola virus disease is ‘a serious, rare infection usually found in certain parts of Africa,’ according to the NHS.\n\nIt’s typically caught by ‘coming into contact with the body fluids of an infected person or wild animal.’\n\nSymptoms include:\n\n  * being sick\n  * diarrhoea and tummy pain\n  * a skin rash\n  * yellowing of the skin and eyes\n  * blood in your poo\n  * lots of bruises all over your body\n  * bleeding from your ears, eyes, nose or mouth\n  * muscle pain\n  * sore throat\n  * blood in vomit or poo\n  * bleeding from nose, gums or vagina\n\n\n\n_**Source: NHS**_\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "India reports first suspected Ebola case after woman travels from Uganda"
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