Ebola: India On Alert, Minister Denies Chennai Case

India has nearly 45,000 nationals living in the four Ebola-affected west African nations.

At the onset of the dreaded disease, a patient experiences fatigue, fever, headache, sore throat and pain in the joints and muscles.

The initial symptoms are so common that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the U.S. says cases are often misdiagnosed.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in west Africa as an "international health emergency".

"A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola," the WHO said in a statement issued after a two-day meeting of its emergency committee.

It noted that the Ebola outbreak in west Africa constituted an "extraordinary event" and a public health risk to other countries too.

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