US scans Bangladesh Ebola measures
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
A US team has visited the Dhaka international airport to check Bangladesh’s preparations to prevent the fatal Ebola virus from entering the country.
Airport officials told bdnews24.com that the team comprised US embassy officials and experts of the US Centre for Disease Control working in Bangladesh.
Prof Be-Nazir Ahmed, director of Bangladesh’s Centre for Disease Control accompanied the team Wednesday.
The current Ebola outbreak that WHO termed an international health emergency is the worst outbreak on record and has killed 4,447 people so far, mostly in West Africa's Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, according to a news agency.