Extra airport screening for Ebola in US
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AN extra level of screening at major airports will reach more than 9 of 10 people traveling to the United States from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, the White House announced after the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in America died.
About 150 travelers a day will have their temperatures checked using no-touch thermometers. Health officials expect false alarms from fevers due to malaria.
The extra screening likely wouldn’t have singled out Thomas Eric Duncan when he arrived from hard-hit Liberia last month, because he had no symptoms while traveling. Duncan died on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas.
The disease has killed at least 3,800 people in West Africa with no signs of abating. Yesterday, the presidents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries hardest hit in the outbreak, were appealing to the World Bank for more help for their nations.
“What we’re paying for now is our failure to have invested in those countries before,” said Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank’s chief economist for Africa. They had only minimal health facilities even before Ebola hit.
The new US airport screening will begin tomorrow at New York’s JFK International Airport and then expand to Washington Dulles and the international airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark.
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