Ebola: 9-Year-Old Nigerian Girl Quarantined in India

                          
                   
A nine year old Nigerian girl with symptoms associated with Ebola, was admitted to the special Ebola quarantine unit at the Ernakulam General Hospital, India.

By the time of arriving at the Kochi International Airport on Monday, the child had already had cold, fever and breathlessness. Therefore she was immediately quarantined, Times of India reports.

Health officials at the airport confirmed the information saying that if was the first case of a passenger arriving at their airport from an Ebola-hit country with the dangerous signs of the disease.
The girl was traveling together with her both parents. The family arrived in an Emirates flight.

The airport authorities followed the quarantine procedures as prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and also placed the girl’s parents under observation.

It is worth noting that in case of Ebola, the incubation period, or the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms, corresponds from 2 to 21 days.
The 9-year-old’s blood sample was flown to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in New Delhi for testing.