On Saturday, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health recommended that its citizens avoid traveling to the countries of Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea. After monitoring a virus outbreak "Marburg" In them, to be the fourth Gulf country to take this measure.
The ministry said, in a statement on its official account on Twitter, that its recommendations to avoid traveling to the two countries in Africa apply until the disease is announced.
The Ministry also recommended that Kuwaiti nationals in the two countries and their neighboring countries should follow the preventive measures announced by the local health authorities in those countries, and take the necessary preventive measures to reduce the risks of infection transmission.
She pointed to her continuous follow-up with regional and international bodies of the latest developments in the health situation in those countries, as well as following up on the epidemiological situation of the disease in the world.
And the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health stated that it will issue the necessary instructions in the event that other developments regarding the disease emerge.
Kuwait is the fourth Gulf country after Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman and Bahrain to call on its citizens to avoid traveling to the countries of Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, due to the outbreak of the virus.
And the Ministry of Health in Tanzania announced, on March 22, the discovery of cases of infection with the virus and the death of 5 infected people, and that 161 people were subject to medical observation.
The World Health Organization also revealed the presence of additional Marburg virus infections in Equatorial Guinea.
It is a virus "Marburg" It is fatal, its symptoms are strong, and there are no effective vaccines for it. This prompted some Gulf countries to warn of its danger.
And a virus was discovered "Marburg"which is from the deadly Ebola virus family, according to the World Health Organization, for the first time after 31 people were infected, and seven people died after it spread simultaneously in 1967 in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany and Belgrade in Serbia.
According to experts, the virus is transmitted to humans by dealing with diseased wild animals that are primarily infected, such as monkeys and fruit bats, and then it is transmitted between humans through direct contact with the infected person, whether by blood transfusion or any of the infected body fluids, or through contact with secretions. injured body.
