No ground for Ebola in Eritrea, Yet public follow-up significant: Ministry

On Aug 26, 2014

The Ministry of Health stated that there exists no ground for Ebola, Yet public follow-up is significant.

Asmara, 26 August 2014 – The Ministry of Health stated that there exists no ground for Ebola, Yet public follow-up is significant.

Dr. Araya Berhane, Director of Control of communicable diseases in the Ministry, said that as Eritrea shares no border with the West-African countries of Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria where the communicable disease has been witnessed, Eritrean citizens are not in immediate threat of the Ebola virus.

Still, Eritrean health personnel are undertaking the necessary precautionary vigilance, including that of checkup on incoming travelers at the Airport, he added.