Addressing the 26th Annual Congress of Iranian Society of Internal Medicine on Monday, Dr. Hosseini said though Corona case was observed in Iran last year, no case of Ebola has yet been witnessed.
He voiced concern that between 50 and 55 percent of Iranian population suffer from overweight of whom 15 percent are obese.
On Hepatitis B patients worldwide, he said about 350 million are said to suffer from the disease and the figure is expected to rise to one billion.
He noted that over the past two decades, about three to five percent of Iranian population were afflicted with Hepatitis B but through vaccination, the figure has dropped to one to three percent.
He noted that in the past years, the most prevalent way of hepatitis transfer in Iran was from mother to child but now it is caused by sharing needles by addicts.
Head of the Health Ministry's Center for Management of Contagious Diseases Mohammad Mehdi Gouya told reporters in October 2014 that Iranian health ministry is working to equip a special hospital to tackle any possible outbreak of Ebola, adding that Iranian physicians are pleased to see no case of corona virus infection among the Hajj pilgrims who returned from Saudi Arabia last year.
'I can assure you that no case of corona virus has been reported among the Iranian pilgrims, but we have allocated a hospital for controlling Ebola disease', if any case of infection is diagnosed.
A medical official announced that passengers at the airport in the northeastern city of Mashhad pass through laser fever-screening instrument as part of measures to identify travelers infected with Ebola or corona virus.
While a spike in Ebola cases and warnings of potential spread have caused serious concerns in many countries, Iran has also begun to use fever-screening equipment at Mashhad airport, said Mohammad Jafar Sadeqi, a local medical official in charge of prevention programs in Iran's northeastern province of Khorassan Razavi this month.
Also earlier October 2014, Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi said his ministry has done its best to immunize Hajj pilgrims against epidemic diseases, including Ebola and corona virus.
'Although Ebola and corona virus diseases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, there should be no worry about Iranian Hajj pilgrims returning to the country,' Qazizadeh Hashemi said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest report said that the number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths.
Only 27 of the cases have occurred outside the three worst-hit countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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Tehran, May 4, IRNA – Member of the Managerial Board of the Iranian Society of Internal Medicine said no case of Ebola virus has yet been observed in Iran despite widespread of the disease in certain parts of the world.
