Bangladesh too far for Ebola virus: IEDCR

Travel restrictions on Ebola patients and the absence of direct air links with the affected West African countries made Ebola virus making its way to Bangladesh ‘a remote possibility’. But the viral disease that World Health Organisation terms as ‘one of the world’s most virulent ailments’ with a 90 per cent fatality rate appears as a concern after the UN agency on Friday declared it an ‘international health emergency’. Bangladesh’s national disease monitoring arm, IEDCR, is keeping a close watch and had already added the virus in an ongoing doctors training programme on emerging diseases on Saturday. But IEDCR Director Prof Mahmudur Rahman considers Bangladesh ‘a low-risk’ country. ‘It’s a remote possibility of the deadly virus coming to Bangladesh,’ he said today, analysing the trend of the virus and WHO's advice, according to bdnews24.com.