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India Detects First Suspected Ebola Case, Boosts Airport Screening

5/27/2026

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A 28-year-old Ugandan woman was admitted to Bengaluru’s Epidemic Diseases Hospital as India’s first suspected Ebola case.
Officials sent her samples to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for testing.
Karnataka designated hospitals in Bengaluru and Mangaluru for isolation, while Andhra Pradesh began Ebola screening at three airports and Visakhapatnam seaport and prepared a 30-bed isolation ward at the Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases.

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A 28-year-old Ugandan woman was admitted to Bengaluru’s Epidemic Diseases Hospital as India’s first suspected Ebola case.
Officials sent her samples to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for testing.
Karnataka designated hospitals in Bengaluru and Mangaluru for isolation, while Andhra Pradesh began Ebola screening at three airports and Visakhapatnam seaport and prepared a 30-bed isolation ward at the Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases.