BANGKOK, Feb 13 – Although the overall situation of the Ebola disease has improved in West Africa, the Public Health Ministry and other concerned agencies are still on alert with preventive measures still in place in Thailand, said Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Yuthavong.
Mr Yongyuth told journalists that the National Directing Committee for Ensuring Promptness in the Prevention and Solution of Emerging Diseases on Thursday held a meeting and agreed that several countries including Thailand in several past months had closely monitored and imposed strict preventive measures from an outbreak of Ebola virus in their countries.
Not one Ebola victim was identfied in Thailand so far, he said.
According to Mr Yongyut, 9,177 Ebola victims died in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in West Africa while 22,894 persons had contracted the disease.
The situation has improved last week in those countries but Thailand’s committee decided that preventive measures for Ebola as well as other deadly diseases including bird flu, a new strain of influenza and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus should continue due to the their severity, Mr Yongyut said.
Meanwhile, Public Health Minister Dr Rajata Rajatanavin said that concerned health officials still must monitor diseases which could be transmitted from animals to humans.
