NEW YORK AIRPORT IS FIRST IN US TO SCREEN PASSENGERS FOR EBOLA SYMPTOMS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, October 11, 2014, 11:58

New York’s JFK airport on Saturday began screening passengers from the west African countries worst affected by Ebola, in an attempt to halt the international spread of the outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people.

JFK is the first of five US airports to start enhanced screening of passengers from the countries worst hit by Ebola: checks will begin in the next few days at O’Hare in Chicago and at Newark, Washington DC’s Dulles and Atlanta.

Teams equipped with thermal guns will take the temperatures of travellers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and ask them questions about their possible exposure to the virus as they enter the US.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/11/ebola-crisis-new-york-jfk-airport-passenger-screening