
A woman suspected of carrying Ebola virus was detected Friday at the Kansai Airport in Osaka, local media reported.
The woman, in her 20s, was from Guinea in West Africa, and was found having a fever at the airport.
She was immediately transferred to a special hospital for quarantine, and her blood sample was sent to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Tokyo for further tests.
Two suspected Ebola cases were reported in Japan on Friday, with a man in his 60s found having a fever and sent to a hospital in Tokyo a few hours earlier. The man has recently traveled to Liberia.
According to the World Health Organization, the death toll caused by the deadly virus infection increased to 4,951 out of 13, 567 cases as of Oct. 29, and Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the top three countries that face the epidemic.
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