MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Bashkortostan Republic plans to hospitalize all travelers arriving from Ebola-hit countries after a student from Nigeria was found with suspected symptoms of the deadly virus, the republic's Health Ministry said in a statement.
"Such quarantine measures will be taken with regard to all those arriving from the countries where the Ebola fever has been registered," the ministry said in the statement.
The student was hospitalized in the republic's capital Ufa on Tuesday, although he did not complain about the symptoms of the virus.
The Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) estimates the risk of the virus entering Russia as extremely low.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a deadly disease transmitted through direct contact with the blood or fluids of the infected. There is no licensed treatment or vaccine for the Ebola virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent.
The ongoing Ebola outbreak is the worst in history and started in Guinea and spread to Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. According to recent World Health Organization estimates, the death toll from the virus has exceeded 1,140. A total of 2,127 people have been infected.
