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Texas Ebola USA Patient is Dead: New Stats: USA 1, Nigeria 9...
« on: October 08, 2014, 10:03:10 PM »
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said Wednesday that banning all travel to West Africa to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus would cause more problems than it would solve.

"It makes it hard to get health workers in, because they can't get out," he said. "If we make it harder to respond to the outbreak in West Africa, it will spread not only in those three countries (in West Africa hit hardest by Ebola) but to other parts of Africa and ultimately increase the risk here" in the United States.

Frieden made these remarks at a press conference announcing enhanced Ebola screening measures at select U.S. airports targeting travelers from West Africa.

These measures will "find people with fever" as well as those who have been in contact with people infected with the virus, he said. Most passengers tracked in West Africa with fevers actually had other illnesses, something that Frieden acknowledged could happen in the United States as well.

"So we expect to see some patients with fever," the CDC director said. "And that will cause some understandable concern at the airports."
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/08/health/ebola-us/

 

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