The Maldives men's volleyball team for the 15th Asian Games has been hit by chicken pox after several players were diagnosed as infected, the Doha Games organizers confirmed on Wednesday.

Dr Abdulwahal Al-Mussleh, the program manager for health care and doping control of the DACOG, said that the disease was spotted shortly in one Maldives player after the men's volleyball team arrived in Doha last week.

"He was immediately isolated and the whole team was screened for chicken box. None of them showed any indication of the disease at that stage," Al-Mussleh told a daily press briefing.

Since then the whole men's volleyball team has been isolated and all are on anti-viral medicine, he added.

Due to the chicken pox outbreak, the Maldives team was forced to withdraw from its Pool A match against Chinese Taipei on Tuesday. After its opponent's withdrawal, Chinese Taipei entered the preliminary round two as the top finisher of Pool A with Kuwait, which beat Maldives 3-0 on Sunday.