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Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

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Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

By SABRINA TAVERNISEOCT. 8, 2014

ATLANTA — Federal health officials will require temperature checks for the first time at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebolavirus. However, health experts said the measures were more likely to calm a worried public than to prevent many people with Ebola from entering the country.

Still, they constitute the first large-scale attempt to improve security at American ports of entry since the virus arrived on American soil last month.

They are also a notable policy shift at a time of rising concern about the disease. Public health officials had initially resisted the move, saying such checks would be an unnecessary use of thinly stretched resources. But pressure for tougher action mounted. Republicans sharply criticized President Obama for what they called a lax response. Many, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, have suggested looking at air travel restrictions from West Africa, something the administration has rejected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/newly-vigilant-us-is-to-screen-fliers-for-ebola.html?src=twr&_r=0

3 thoughts on “Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

  1. Any one coming from West Africa should be placed in quarantine just like we did to those coming to the US through Ellis Island years ago.

  2. Ebola is from Africa. Obama has African heritage. STUDY IT OUT, PEOPLE!

    /amidoinitrite, Jamsie?

    1. playing the race card over Ebola ? …scary ,ok Louis Farrakhan ,btw how was Al Sharpton Birthday ?

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