--- title: Man Tests Positive for Ebola in India description: An Indian resident has tested positive for Ebola after traveling to the country from Liberia. canonical: https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-18T16:21:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:20.335Z article:section: Health og:title: India's First Ebola Patient Has Been Quarantined og:description: An Indian resident has tested positive for Ebola after traveling to the country from Liberia. og:url: https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: India's First Ebola Patient Has Been Quarantined twitter:description: An Indian resident has tested positive for Ebola after traveling to the country from Liberia. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # India's First Ebola Patient Has Been Quarantined ## Video: Nigeria is an Ebola Success Story: Here's What The Country Did Right [Watch (HLS stream): Nigeria is an Ebola Success Story: Here's What The Country Did Right](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mSo7iFZ3.m3u8) (2:43)  _Published 2014-10-21. The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola on Monday, a containment victory in an outbreak that has stymied other countries’ response efforts._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 18, 2014 4:21 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 18, 2014 4:21 PM UTC An Indian resident who tested positive for Ebola—and was cured—has landed in Delhi from Liberia. The 26-year-old man is being isolated in a facility at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport, [_The Times of India_ reports](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Man-tests-positive-for-Ebola-in-Delhi-kept-under-isolation/articleshow/45194610.cms). According to the _Times_, the man had already been treated for Ebola in West Africa, currently does not have symptoms and tested negative for the virus before he flew. However, his semen tested positive for the virus. He had a medical clearance certificate from the Liberian government saying the had been treated and was confirmed negative from blood tests—that would deem him Ebola-free, according to the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His blood also tested negative in India. Semen can test positive after clinical clearance for up to three months, [according to the CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html). The agency recommends abstinence from sex—including oral sex—for at least three months. If abstinence cannot be followed, the CDC recommends condoms to prevent disease spread. The patient in India is being kept in isolation in a health facility at the airport until his semen tests negative. It’s not likely that he poses a threat, given the negative test from his blood, but experts have long been concerned that a spread of Ebola in India could be devastating given the population size. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/"},"headline":"India's First Ebola Patient Has Been Quarantined","datePublished":"2014-11-18T16:21:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:20.335Z","description":"Man was already treated and cured in Liberia","url":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/","keywords":["ebola","India","Delhi","Airport","Ebola outbreak","blood"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/","name":"India's First Ebola Patient Has Been Quarantined"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Nigeria is an Ebola Success Story: Here's What The Country Did Right","description":"The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola on Monday, a containment victory in an outbreak that has stymied other countries’ response efforts.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mSo7iFZ3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-21T14:40:21.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mSo7iFZ3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/","duration":"PT2M43S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3592142/ebola-in-india/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```