There were no known cases of Ebola in India, but the latest news of a 26-year-old man who was isolated on Tuesday after he tested positive in Ebola on his semen is the very first in the country.
On Nov. 10, a man who traveled back to India from Liberia was held and submitted to quarantine following the event that he tested positive for Ebola. The man who was unidentified tested negative on blood test, but revealed positive result two times when his semen was examined.
The Ebola in India, latest case of the dreaded disease spread out in the national and international news the moment he tested positive for Ebola on his semen.
The man, an Indian national arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India two months after he was treated at a Liberian hospital and declared an Ebola survivor. The man was freed from the hospital Sept. 30 after his recovery from the suspected symptoms of the disease, CNN reported.
"It is a known fact that during convalescence from Ebola Virus Disease, persons continue to shed virus in bodily fluids for variable periods," the health ministry stated.
The case of Ebola in India latest result on the semen indicates a probable chance of transmitting the disease through sexual intercourse in a period of 90 days even after he was declared clear of the symptoms.
The man was held in quarantine and will only be released the moment he will be tested again and there are no longer traces of the virus. A health ministry official clarified that he is not a case of Ebola in India as latest result declared he was treated already in Liberia.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises to abstain from sex after treated from Ebola as the virus is still present in the semen for a period of three months.
A virologist in University of Maryland, Alan Schmalijohn says that there is no case that a man can transmit Ebola virus through sexual contact although earlier there is a virus similar to Ebola that was passed on through sexual contact.
Ebola has a recorded death of 5,177 people according to the latest records of the World Health organization. Although Ebola in India latest news is considered far from spreading the disease, some experts say that the nation is not yet ready to handle such highly dangerous disease such as Ebola.
India has a population of 1.2 billion and there are about 45, 000 Indians who are living in West Africa. The large portion of people living in an Ebola-stricken-nation poses a great risk as they traveled back to India.
A thickly populated country such as India is not yet prepared for the deadly virus given that there are still more rural areas that are living below the sanitary standards. Toilets and urinals are still things that must be developed.
But the current action of the Indian government to arrest the spread of Ebola has helped a lot in achieving a nation free of Ebola.
Since mid-October, there are roughly 22, 000 people who are screened for Ebola in India. Latest records of the Health ministry showed 485 people had been quarantined once they arrived at the airport.
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