Ebola: Indian Sex workers to deny Africans sex

The Ebola virus is about to cause “sex starvation” for Africans living in India as sex workers in Kolkata, India, have been asked not to entertain Africans who were their regular visitors for fear of contracting the virus which had gone haywire in West Africa.

The warning was issued by an NGO working for the welfare of the sex workers.

 "We have requested the sex workers not to entertain Africans as it can be a life risk for them if they get infected by the highly contagious Ebola virus causing havoc in some West African countries," Mahasweta, a member of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee  (DMSC), a forum of about 130,000 sex workers in West Bengal told PTI, a news agency.

The committee is presently training and providing classes to sex workers to identify the signs of an Ebola-affected person.

"According to WHO guidelines, transmission of the virus requires close contact with body fluids such as sweat, saliva, cough of an infected person and also body contact. So we are training the sex workers on how to identify the symptoms," Samarjit Jana, an official of DMSC said.