TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iranian health officials are working to set up a special hospital to fight any possible Ebola outbreak, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
"We have allocated a hospital for controlling Ebola disease" if any case of infection is diagnosed, Health Ministry's Center for Management of Contagious Diseases chief Mohammad-Mehdi Gouya told reporters on Sunday.
The official said although no Ebola case has been detected in Iran so far, the ministry should develop a plan for setting up more potential Ebola control and quarantine centers, he was quoted as saying.
Gouya also said that no case of coronavirus infection among the country's Hajj pilgrims, who have returned from Saudi Arabia recently, has been observed.
The deadly Ebola virus, which first broke out in West Africa in March, has put the whole world on high alert as it spreads now as far as to Europe and the United States. Many countries even tried to shut out the virus by closing their borders.
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