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India Screens for Ebola: No Cases Confirmed
27 May
Summary
- No Ebola cases confirmed in India as screening continues.
- Quarantined Ugandan woman in Bengaluru tested negative.
- India issues travel advisory against visiting DRC, Uganda.
As of May 27, 2026, India has reported no confirmed cases of the Ebola virus, despite ongoing screening and surveillance efforts. The Health Ministry is vigilantly monitoring the disease's spread in Central Africa.
A Ugandan national who was under quarantine in Bengaluru for suspected Ebola has tested negative. The 28-year-old woman had mild symptoms after recent travel to Uganda but her blood report from the National Institute of Virology, Pune, was negative. She remains in healthy condition and will undergo a second test within 48 hours.
In a separate incident, a 47-year-old man who returned from Uganda was placed under home isolation in Nagpur, western India. He has shown no symptoms and reported no contact with infected individuals in Uganda.
India has issued a travel advisory recommending against non-essential travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Africa a global public health emergency, with the Bundibugyo virus strain, first identified in Uganda in 2007, having an average fatality rate of around 50%.
