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US plans to boost Ebola screening at airports
Obama also rules out banning flights to the three West African countries worst affected by the virus
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, Oct 7, 2014 · 09:50 PM
Washington
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said on Monday the US government would increase passenger screenings in the United States and Africa to detect the Ebola virus, even as he resisted calls to impose a ban on those travelling from the three countries most affected by the outbreak.
Neither the president nor White House officials elaborated on exactly what those new screenings would entail. At the moment, passengers leaving the three nations most affected by the virus - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - are screened for symptoms at the airport before departing.
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