Russia to install additional Ebola-detecting equipment at airports

Special equipment to detect suspicious cases of Ebola disease will be installed at Russia's airports, the government ordered Friday.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has held a meeting with senior government officials and discussed the measures to prevent the spread of the deadly virus into the country, the government press service said.
"The discussion touched upon organizational and medical methods of fighting the spread of the fever, medical personnel training, boosting quarantine control on the border, wherefore additional special equipment will be installed in airports," it said.
Also on Friday, Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Russian Parliament's lower house, State Duma, proposed suspension of travels to and from West Africa to prevent Ebola spreading into the country.
"Ebola, according to the WHO (World Health Organization,) will soon start to infect up to 10,000 people weekly. The only way out is to cut off all travel to and from West Africa," Interfax news agency quoted Pushkov as saying.
Russia's health watchdog, Roszdravnadzor, on Thursday registered a newly-tested drug to detect the virus on the early period of the infection development.
Ebola's latent period may last up to three weeks. Its symptoms include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding.
Earlier in the month, Anna Popova, chief sanitary inspector at Russia's sanitary and epidemiological watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, assured there was no reason to worry about an Ebola outbreak in Russia.
Since March, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 4,500 people, according to the latest WHO report.