US orders Ebola travel restrictions

Redagger029 · Oct 21, 2014

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced all travelers from the West African countries stricken with Ebola must travel to the U.S. through one of only five airports.

Travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are being forced to travel through the five airports previously announced as Ebola screening centers for international travelers, officials said in a statement.

Those five airports are New York-JFK, Newark Liberty, Washington, D.C. Dulles, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago O'Hare.

All passengers taking flights from West Africa to these five airports will be subject to "secondary screening and added protocols, including having their temperature taken, before they can be admitted into the United States," officials said

MikeB · Oct 21, 2014

What happens when the person flying into NY isn't showing symptoms when they land? They are free to roam around.

What happens when they show symptoms the day after they land at JFK?

Why can't we just have an automatic 21 day quarantine?

Akillies · Oct 21, 2014

screening does nothing

loomis41973 · Oct 21, 2014

Akillies said:
screening does nothing

It's a huge fucking joke....very Presidential.

MichaelA2014 · Oct 21, 2014

Saddest thing is that they are doing it after they got few cases of ebola already in. Should have done that BEFORE Ebola landed on US soil.
And now they are checking the temperature of the suspicious passengers.... At least not with the rectal thermometer.....yet.

TheFalls · Oct 21, 2014

you gotta ban ALL int'l flights if this is the case.
how do you stop someone who flew from africa to somewhere in europe, etc for a day or more.. and then to the states?