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| Five US Airports to Screen For Ebol |
| Five US Airports to Screen For Ebola
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-October-2014
14:33:25 PM |
| Five US airports will begin screening the temperatures of passengers arriving from West Africa as the United States ramps up its response to a deadly Ebola outbreak, officials said Wednesday.
"The vast majority of people" coming from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three countries hit hardest by the epidemic -- will be screened, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
The airports implementing the measures are John F. Kennedy International in New York, Washington Dulles International, Chicago O'Hare International, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International and Newark Liberty International in New Jersey.
Together, the five hubs are the destination for 94 percent of people traveling to the United States from the three most affected countries.
"The thing that's important for people to understand is, we continue to have a lot of confidence in the screening measures that are already in place and had been in place for some time now," Earnest said.
The announcement came just hours after the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States -- and the first outside the African continent -- was said to have died at a hospital in Texas.
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian citizen, had traveled from Liberia to Texas to visit family in September.
The Ebola epidemic has killed nearly 3,500 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone this year.
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