The Obama administration and airlines are considering additional screening for Ebola symptoms in airline passengers traveling from West Africa to the U.S. In advance of a meeting between U.S. health officials and airline representatives today, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, said President Barack Obama’s administration is discussing adding the additional screening at U.S. airports to the exit screenings to passengers in the West African nations stricken by the disease.
[eap_ad_1] “We’re looking at all options to protect Americans because that’s our No. 1 priority,” Frieden told the CNN television network. The Obama administration today continued to dismiss calls for a travel ban on the three hardest-hit nations, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. (Bloomberg)
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