Ebola Checks

From the BBC:
"Ebola: US considers airport checks"

People arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports, health officials say.  Extra checks at entry is one of the options under consideration as the US tries to limit the spread of its first confirmed case, a Liberian in Dallas.  President Barack Obama is to be briefed on the Ebola crisis later on Monday.  The outbreak is the world's deadliest, killing more than 3,400 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. On Monday, there was the first case of contagion outside Africa when a Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid contracted the virus herself. In a news conference, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the federal government to enhance screening procedures at points of entry - taking information on travel history and taking temperatures. One of the US president's advisers on the issue, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said "discussion is underway right now'' regarding all options to contain the virus. But on airport checks, he told CNN the question was whether "the extra level of screening is going to be worth the resources you need to put into it". Passengers leaving affected countries already have their temperatures checked, but people do not become infectious until they display symptoms.  The infected Liberian in Dallas, Texas, Thomas Eric Duncan, was monitored for symptoms when he left Liberia but they did not develop until four days later, when he was in the US. He is now in a critical condition in hospital and receiving an experimental drug treatment. But he ruled out banning flights to the US because isolating these countries would only increase the outbreak within Africa and would deny them crucial aid, he said.  A national survey by the Pew Research Center, suggests most Americans trust the government to prevent a major outbreak - 20% have a "great deal" of confidence, while another 38% said they have a "fair amount" of confidence.  A plane carrying American journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, landed on Monday in Nebraska, where he will undergo treatment for the deadly disease. His parents said at a news conference he was looking strong and was "enormously relieved" to be in the US. Other US aid workers who have been flown home are now recovering after treatment. A French nurse who contracted the virus in Liberia has recovered after having experimental medication in Paris.

 

^ This shouldn't even be a debate it should already be in place. Ebola was only in western Africa and could have been contained to that area, but aid groups and world governments failed and now it is in the US and in Europe. We probably should have isolated everyone coming from western Africa when it first started, but of course people don't try and fix things until they are personally affected by it. Now the US has Ebola for the first time and the US Government is trying to make-up for its failings. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29510173