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Ugandan woman in India tests negative for Ebola virus

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No cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed so far in India, the Health Ministry has said. India is continuing to conduct screening, surveillance, and precautionary measures, while monitoring the disease’s rapid spread in Central Africa, the government-backed-DD News said in a Facebook post. A Ugandan national who was quarantined in the southern city of Bengaluru on suspicion of having contracted the disease has tested negative, the authorities said on Wednesday. The 28-year-old woman, with a recent history of travel in the East African nation, had developed mild symptoms of Ebola and was moved from a hotel to the state-backed Epidemic Diseases Hospital on May 26. “The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has communicated orally that the woman’s blood report has come back negative,” said a top health official in the southern state of Karnataka, the Hindu reported . India is implementing public health protocols in line with WHO guidelines for the outbreak.…

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