Nepal, June 2 -- Central Africa may seem too far away for most Nepalis to worry about the spread of Ebola, but the presence of Nepali UN peacekeepers at the epicenter of the epidemic has raised concern.

The Nepali Army has mandated a 21-day quarantine for any of its soldiers returning from peacekeeping duties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Infectious disease experts say the country should remain on high alert, but not panic.

"The increased movement of people means we have to be prepared for any infection in any part of the world as we have previously with swine flu, Mpox, or the Omicron variant of Covid," says virologist Sher Bahadur Pun at Teku Hospital. "An average of six Nepalis take yellow fever vaccines every day in ou...