The arrival of an Ebola-infected air passenger in Nigeria has airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world
News.com.au
July 28, 2014
A MAN collapses at an international airport: It’s a hackneyed scene from almost every plague film ever made. But now it has happened — airports around the world are on high alert as fears mount that the deadly Ebola virus is on the move.
Nigerian health authorities are racing to stop the spread of the flesh-eating Ebola virus after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases carried it by plane to Lagos, Africa’s largest city with 21 million people.
Nigeria is so concerned it has ordered the establishment of “disease isolation centres” at international airports across the country to prevent any further entry of the untreatable disease.
But the horse may have already bolted.
Not only did the passenger come into contact with people at the megacity’s main airport and in the aircraft itself, he’d spent time in an airport at the uninfected African country of Togo where his flight had a scheduled stopover.
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