The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population raised the level of preparedness at air, sea and land entry points to activate and tighten health control procedures for passengers, means of transportation, and goods coming from Israel during the current time to combat West Nile fever after its spread in Israel.
The Ministry’s Quarantine Department called for taking a set of preventive health measures at the ports of entry, most notably preventive measures towards passengers by conducting health screening for all those arriving on essential or special flights coming from Israel, directly or indirectly.
According to the Ministry of Health’s guide to deal with West Nile fever, the West Nile virus is responsible for what is known as West Nile fever, which reaches humans through the bites of mosquitoes carrying the virus, and is generally spread in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Western Asia.
It can cause West Nile virus causing a neurological disease in humans, but about 80% of those infect
ed do not show any symptoms. Birds are the main carrier of West Nile virus, from which it is transmitted to mosquitoes, where it takes several days to reach the mosquito’s salivary glands, which in turn transmit it to humans when it bites them.
Source: State Information Service Egypt
