Health authorities in Hyderabad have placed a foreign national under medical observation after he was found to have a fever during routine screening at the city's international airport. The incident has drawn attention because the traveller had recently visited regions in Africa where Ebola outbreaks have been reported.
Scientists across the world are accelerating efforts to develop new vaccines against the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola as fresh outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda continue raising global health concerns.