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Obama announces plans for new Ebola screening of airline passengers.
By molly Hennessey-Fiske and Michael Muskal, Los Angeles times
10.07.14
The Obama administration is developing additional screening protocol for airline passengers both overseas and in the United States to control infectious disease such as Ebola, President Barack Obama said Monday.
After meeting with his senior health, homeland and security and national security advisers Obama told reporters that in the wake of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States, officials would study increasing screening plans.
We’re also going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screening both at the source and here in the United States, the president said, without offering details. New measures could be announced shortly, an admission official said.
“I consider this a top national security priority,” Obama said.
In my perspective I think this is a great idea. The reason why I think the idea of screening protocol for airline passengers to control infectious disease such as Ebola is a great idea, it’s because it could maybe 85% work to our advantage to stopping this infectious disease from spreading. The fact that there is already one person with Ebola in America it scares the whole nation. If this disease swiped half of the sierra Leoneans, now imagine what it could do to the Americans. By screening people at the airlines it could help us not allow people with Ebola come to America and spread the disease. In conclusion I am hundred percent agreeing with the president of the United States on this issue, and maybe other countries could learn something from the president, and do the same for the sake of their own people.

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