New Delhi: Ebola threat had landed in India with 26-year-old Indian resident who tested positive for Ebola—and was cured—has landed in Delhi from Liberia in Indira Gandhi International airport of Delhi.
Reports claimed that man had already been treated for Ebola in West Africa, currently does not have symptoms and tested negative for the virus before he flew. Meanwhile his semen tested positive for the virus.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Control and Prevention (CDC), he had a medical clearance certificate from the Liberian government saying that he had been treated and was confirmed negative from blood tests—that would deem him Ebola-free.
According to CDC, his blood also tested negative in India. Semen can test positive after clinical clearance for up to three months.
The patient had been recommended for abstinence from sex—including oral sex—for at least six months.
If abstinence cannot be followed, the CDC recommends condoms to prevent disease spread.
The patient in India is being kept in isolation in a health facility at the airport until his semen tests negative.
Notify that Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses. Signs and symptoms typically start between two days and three weeks after contracting the virus as a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches which had been followed by vomiting, diarrhea and rash usually. It also decreased function of the liver and kidneys. At this time some people begin to bleed both internally and externally.
The disease has a high risk of death, killing between 25 percent and 90 percent of those infected with the virus, averaging out at 50 percent.
The virus spreads by direct contact with blood or other body fluids of an infected human or other animal. Infection with the virus may also occur by direct contact with a recently contaminated item or surface. Spread of the disease through the air between primates, including humans, has not been documented in either laboratory or natural conditions.
The virus may be spread by semen or breast milk for several weeks to months after recovery.
Bureau Report
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