FILE PHOTO: An advocacy poster towards the unfold of Ebola virus is positioned alongside the walkway on the Platinum Medical Centre, as help companies intensify efforts to comprise a brand new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo Virus in Kampala, Uganda, Could 26, 2026. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photograph
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Gujarat reported its first suspected Ebola case on Wednesday after a 37-year-old businessman from Congo and three others — who got here involved with the Congolese man — have been admitted to the Ahmedabad Civil hospital and positioned in quarantine.
The person who arrived in Vadodara from Mumbai had developed Ebola-like signs together with excessive fever and chilly. “5 days in the past, this man had come to Mumbai from Congo and later he travelled to Vadodara with two others for business-related work,” Praful Pansheriya, state well being minister stated including that the person has been admitted at a particular ward to civil hospital for “security causes.”
Blood samples have been collected from the quarantined sufferers and despatched for testing. “Until now there isn’t a Ebola case anyplace in Gujarat or India so no person must worry,” the minister added.
“The 2 others who have been accompanying the Congolese man and a health care provider have additionally been quarantined, although these there confirmed no signs of Ebola,” Pansheriya added. Groups from the well being division have been deployed on the worldwide airports within the state..
Revealed on Could 27, 2026
