Obama Says US Working on New Ways to Screen Passengers for Ebola
Obama Says US Working on New Ways to Screen Passengers for Ebola – President Barack Obama said on Monday his administration was working on additional protocols for screening airplane passengers to identify people who might have Ebola, and would step up efforts to make medical professionals aware of what to do if they encounter a case.
Obama told reporters he also planned to increase pressure on large countries, which he did not identify by name, to contribute aid to West African nations struggling to contain the worst outbreak of Ebola on record.
Acknowledging the missteps in Thomas Duncan’s case in Texas, he said, “we have learned lessons in terms of what happened in Dallas.” He said that health officials were coming up with new protocols for screening passengers at airports at West African countries, the source of the outbreak, as well as in the US.
He told reporters that while the chances were low for an Ebola outbreak in the US, the margin for error is also low, and stressed the need to come up with and follow the best protocols for containing the disease.
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