DISEASE RISK ASSESSMENT PROFILE

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Subject: DISEASE RISK ASSESSMENT PROFILE                                 

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         SAUDI ARABIA -Disease Risk Assessment Profile (DISRAP)
         UNCLASSIFIED: FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

         Prepared by: NEPMU-7, Naples, Italy
         Date of last review/revision: 08 Aug 1990

         PLAD: NAVENPVNTMEDU SEVEN NAPLES IT//04//
         Address: Box 41 FPO New York, NY 09521-4200
         Phone: AV 625-4468 or COMM 039-081-724-4468/9 or 4470
         Fax: 0039-81-762-4174

         1. Pass to Medical.

         2. The following Disease Risk Assessment Profile (DISRAP) on
         Saudi Arabia has been prepared by NEPMU-7. In assigning measures
         of risk (high, moderate, low) to diseases, we are indicating the
         risk of acquisition during a routine port visit or in-country
         deployment of brief (3 weeks or less) duration unless otherwise
         stated. If your operations in Saudi Arabia differ from the above
         (such as extended in-country missions), please contact NEPMU-7
         for possible changes in assignments of disease risk.

         3. We encourage user feedback and/or information relevant to
         this DISRAP. Contributions from deployment reports and Port
         Surveillance Questionnaires (contained in NEPMU-7 Medical
         Information Advisory) are incorporated into updates of our
         DISRAPS.

         4. This information should not be considered current after March
         1991.

         5.  Gastrointestinal Diseases

            High risk. This group will probably have the greatest impact
         on personnel. Routine Travellers diarrhea (E. Coli) is the most
         significant threat. Diseases known to have moderate to high
         endemic rates include: Typhoid (14 cases per 10,000 Pop.) and
         Paratyphoid Fevers, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Viral Hepatitis
         (7.7 Hep A and 13.3 Hep B cases per 10,000 Pop.), Amebiasis (3.9
         cases per 10,000 Pop.), Giardiasis and Helminthiasis. Saudi
 rate in the
         Middle East. 60% of the Saudi population experiences Hepatitis B
         virus infection. Amebiasis is present countrywide and especially
         along coastal plains of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and along
         the common border with Iraq. Cholera is not active at present
         but has been reported sporadically in the past, last in 1991.

            The most important preventive measure is avoidance of
         contaminated water and food. Presume all local water (including
         ice) is not potable, even in hotels and restaurants. All water
         consumed should be either bottled or treated. Uncooked foods
         likely to be contaminated with local water (for example: let-

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