U.S. will display people arriving from Uganda for Ebola as East African nation battles outbreak

U.S. will display people arriving from Uganda for Ebola as East African nation battles outbreak


Medical practitioners wander inside of the Ebola isolation portion of Mubende Regional Referral Healthcare facility, in Mubende, Uganda, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

Hajarah Nalwadda | AP

The U.S. will rout and display travellers for Ebola at five selected airports if they have traveled in Uganda within just a few months prior to their arrival, federal officers said on Thursday.

Uganda, a nation in East Africa, is battling a deadly outbreak of Ebola with 63 confirmed and probable conditions and 29 deaths, according to the Earth Overall health Organization. No situations of Ebola have been described in the U.S., according to the Facilities for Ailment Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Embassy in Uganda, in a health and fitness notify Thursday, claimed travellers who have been in the East African country in 21 days of their arrival in the U.S. will be routed to a person of 5 airports: New York JFK, Newark, Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare or Washington Dulles.

Travellers arriving from Uganda at those airports will undertake temperature checks and verification of their get in touch with data, a federal health and fitness formal stated. Airways will deliver passenger data to the Facilities for Sickness Handle and Prevention so the company can carry out wellbeing stick to ups, the formal said. Contact information will also be despatched to point out health and fitness departments so they can perform follow ups regionally.

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