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All the airports in Kazakhstan are making sanitary-quarantine control over people arriving from abroad to stop possible spread of Ebola virus, Kazinform reported quoting National Economy Ministry on September 11.

"All Kazakhstan's airports in the cities of Almaty, Astana, Atyrau, Aktobe, Aktau, Karaganda, Kostanai, Pavlodar, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Shymkent are carrying out sanitary-quarantine control over people arriving from abroad," the Ministry said.

The airports use non-contact thermal imagers and pyrometers to identify one of the main symptoms of Ebola (high temperature) among arriving passengers, according to the Ministry.

Over 1.7 million people have been examined at Kazakh border checkpoints in 2014. No signs of infection have been revealed yet.

The Consumer Protection Committee under Kazakh National Economy Ministry, together with the Kazakh Foreign Ministry monitors people applying for a Kazakh visa in Western Africa.

Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter was in a village situated near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.

The World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency as more than 2,100 people have died of the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year.