After the first case of Ebola in the United States was detected last month, airports will now be screening fliers coming from West Africa. People arriving to the United States from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, will have their temperature taken when they arrive along with being questioned by workers. If a fever is detected, the passenger will be taken to an isolated location in the airport and put in quarantine. Passengers that are quarantined will then be evaluated by the CDC. Five airports will be implementing this new measure starting this Saturday; airports include Kennedy International Airport in New York, Washington Dulles, Newark International, O'Hare International in Chicago, and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.
According to The New York Times, this new measure might not help stop infected people from coming into the U.S. because the virus has an incubation period of eight to ten days before a fever can be detected. The measure was passed to calm the worried public. I don't think the measure will be very effective to stop infected people from coming into the U.S. or to calm the public. Some people want to cancel flights coming in from West Africa all together.
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/newly-vigilant-us-is-to-screen-fliers-for-ebola.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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