GCC holds emergency meeting on Ebola Wednesday

Saudi Arabia will host Wednesday an emergency for health officials at the Gulf Cooperation Council member states to discuss deadly outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
The GCC meeting will tackle EVD prevention and treatment as well as dealing with the infected people, said Dr. Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, Director-General, Executive Board of the GCC Health Ministers Council.
The conferees also expected to mull precautionary measures to protect people who are travelling to and working in the infected countries.
GCC meeting will also discuss producing pamphlets to build awareness, the nature of Ebola as a highly infectious disease, history of the current outbreak, symptoms, transmission modes as well as advice on personal safety and hygiene and ways to prevent exposure to the virus.
Meanwhile, the UAE Ministry of Health has announced that "UAE is free from Ebola disease and that preventive and precautionary measures in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) regulations have been taken to keep the disease at bay," according to Emirates News Agency (WAM).
EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90 percent. Since earlier this year, the epidemic claimed 932 lives and infected more than 1,700 people across West Africa.
EVD epidemic occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.