Serbia has taken preventive measures by putting travellers from ebola outbreaking African countries under supervision, medical authorities confirmed to Xinhua on Thursday.

Dr Miomir Pelemis from the Clinic for Tropical and Infectious Diseases said that there is no Ebola in Serbia and that not a single patient was received to this institution on suspicion of being infected with the deadly virus.

"This is not the first time that we face large scale epidemics, and we are fully equipped and prepared to deal with it, but in Serbia there is no Ebola, thank god," Pelemis told Xinhua.

Serbian media reported that 14 people that recently arrived from African countries to the Nikola Tesla airport were given instruction to contact epidemiological service at the public health institution in their place of residence.

According to the website of the Serbian Public Health Institute, sanitary inspectors who control passengers at the country's two airports, put those who come from Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone or other countries that reported presence of Ebola under supervision.

They will be monitored from distance by epidemiologists for 21 days by which at latest symptoms of the infection ought to appear: high temperature, pain in joints and muscles, overall weakness, diarrhea and stomach ache.

"These are healthy people," doctor Pelemis explained referring to the 14 people under supervision adding that the monitoring performed by local epidemiologist is a just a measure of precaution introduced by the Serbian Public Health Institute. Enditem

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