US may start screening air passengers for Ebola
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Looks like the US is considering screening passengers from
Ebola hit countries before they enter the country. This is
coming about a week after a Liberian man entered the
country with Ebola. President Obama said yesterday that
though the likelihood of an Ebola outbreak in the US is
"extremely low' but they have to react.
"We're also going to be working on protocols to do
additional passenger screening both at the source and
here in the United States. Countries that think that
they can sit on the sidelines and just let the United
States do it, that will result in a less effective
response, a less speedy response, and that means
that people die."
"And it also means that the potential spread of the
disease beyond these areas in West Africa becomes
more imminent," President Obama said at the White
House briefing with US health officials
The Liberian man who became the first case of Ebola
diagnosed on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan, is in a
critical condition in a hospital isolation unit in Dallas.
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