The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is closely monitoring the threat of the Marburg virus, which is currently spreading in Central Africa and has already claimed at least nine lives in the region.
Deputy DDC director-general, Sophon Iamsirithavorn, said on Monday that although the department has no plan to impose a travel ban, authorities are screening travellers from Equatorial Guinea, where the virus was first detected, as well as its immediate neighbouring countries to prevent the disease from spreading in Thailand.
Public health offices across the country have also been instructed to collect samples from anyone suspected of contracting the disease…
