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Several people are quarantined because of a possible Ebola virus in Georgia

19 October 2014 04:50 (UTC +04:00)

As"Georgia Online” reports, head of Scientific Board,National Center for Disease Control and Public Health Paata Imnadze said it.

According to him, over the past three months 84 people came to Georgia from West Africa and possible virus likely was brought by some of them: “Most of them came from Nigeria, after the passage of the 21-day quarantine period observation for most of them removed. Under the supervision of physicians are only a few persons”.

As Paata Imnadze note, they are healthy, but the quarantine period has not yet passed. But after the completion of observation they will not be keep under control.

In February 2014 an outbreak of the Ebola virus was identified in the south-eastern forests of Guinea, the first time the virus had been recorded in the West African state.

By March, it had spread to the capital Conakry and by April it had reached neighbouring Liberia. Since then, the disease has advanced to Sierra Leone and Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. In the first week of August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak an international health emergency, and by the second week the Ebola death rate had surpassed 1,000 fatalities.

By 10 October 2014, 4,024 “confirmed, suspected and probable” Ebola deaths had been recorded in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, while eight deaths have been reported in Nigeria. Close on 8,370 cases of Ebola have been recorded. (For situation reports on the Ebola outbreak visit the WHO’s global alert and response website.)