Russia's consumer rights' watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has tightened sanitary and quarantine control of flights from Egypt due to cases of an unidentified disease in this country, Report informs referring to TASS.
"In connection with the current situation with regard to flights arriving from Egypt, Rospotrebnadzor has strengthened sanitary and quarantine control, including with the help of the Perimeter automated information system," the message says.
The symptoms of the disease found in Egypt are similar to Dengue fever. The agency is cooperating with the Egyptian side and international organizations to obtain additional data on the nature of the disease, the risks of its cross-border spread, and the preventive and anti-epidemic measures taken.
The main carriers of dengue fever are Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. If there is no carrier, the sick person does not pose an epidemiological danger, the Rospotrebnadzor added.