Cuba reports no Ebola case, but bolsters sanitary measures

Cuba's Public Health Ministry Wednesday said no Ebola case has found in the country, but the government is going to reinforce sanitary measures to prevent an outbreak.

Niurka Molina, the head of the ministry's department for international disease control, said travelers from Africa, Southeast Asia, South and Central America, and the Caribbean received special monitoring, not just for Ebola, but for other infectious diseases such as malaria.

According to the ministry, around 60 Cuban doctors and healthcare workers are working in the four West African countries affected by the outbreak, but "they are fine and have received necessary training and abundant means of protection."

Manuel Santin, the ministry's national director of epidemiology, noted there were no direct flights to Cuba from the affected countries, but there was always the risk of infection from international travelers, so preventive measures should be reinforced.

The World Health Organization's latest update on the Ebola outbreak says 1,350 people have died of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.