Ebola virus. They tightened controls at five airports in the United States – Money.pl

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Travelers who come to the United States from West African countries affected by the epidemic of Ebola virus, since this weekend will have measured the temperature at five airports in the United States – informed the representatives of the American government.

Passengers arriving into the United States from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are also filled out a questionnaire in which to answer questions about your stay in West Africa.

These preventive measures will be introduced to the five airports, m .in. JFK in New York, at the airport Washington Dulles and Chicago O’Hare.

These five airports gets 94 percent. people arriving to the United States from the three countries affected by Ebola , that is, from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – said at a press conference, White House spokesman Josh Earnest. In his opinion, it comes about. 150 people a day.

Earlier information on stricter controls CNN reported that resembled that Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are already required to check the health of passengers before boarding an aircraft . People will now be examined also in USA.Również on Wednesday, the Ministry of National Security USA customs officials and border guards ordered at American airports to observe all those who arrive to the country to check whether passengers do not show symptoms of infection with Ebola.

The deputy This ministry Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the airport staff will also be handing out brochures to passengers, which are described symptoms of infection, and the information that travelers should consult your doctor, if within 21 days start to feel ill. Mayorkas said, since you have to apply the new measures.

Administration of President Barack Obama in recent weeks wondering what can be done to identify passengers who may be infected with Ebola, because many of them can not show symptoms shortly after arriving in the country. Symptoms can appear between two and 21 days after zarażenia.Zapowiadając on Monday additional ways to control passengers arriving aircraft to the United States, Obama stressed that the risk of an outbreak of Ebola in the United States is extremely small .

On Monday at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, died infected with Ebola Thomas Eric Duncan, with whom developed the disease after coming to the United States from Liberia. He was the first patient who was diagnosed infected only in the United States, not in the West African country.

According to the latest balance sheet of the World Health Organization (WHO) to 5 October Ebola killed 3 out of 8 033 879 infected people in Africa Western and there is no evidence that the epidemic was brought under control. Ebola, which was detected in 1976, is spread through direct contact with blood and body fluids of infected humans and animals; no virus is spread by droplet.

Ebola virus. They tightened controls at five airports in the United States – Money.pl