American officials refuse to ban travelers from countries receiving outbreaks of Ebola
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dr. Thomas Frieden said CDC Director for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the United States does not intend to cancel the flights coming from countries that suffer from the worst outbreak of Ebola at all in West Africa.
He said in a briefing that the actions of "enhanced" screening at airports began at the airport John F.. Kennedy International in New York City earlier this week and will be extended to four other airports, starting on Thursday, including Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
Testing and examination of whether the traveler newcomer suffering from fever, the first symptoms of Ebola infection. It is incumbent upon arriving either directly or indirectly from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to answer questions about any contact with Ebola patients.
The person can be infected with Ebola virus without symptoms, which means that upon such examination is made of the fever will not like this person. Did not show signs of fever on Thomas Eric Duncan first patient was diagnosed with Ebola injury in the United States upon his arrival to Dallas last month, but the disease appeared a few days after it died last week.
Frieden said he until control of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, it is "there is no room to reduce the level of risk in the United States to zero
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