Ebola outbreak: Travel warning for 3 countries, US airports on high alert
PIX11.com
July 31, 2014
The United States government is warning travelers to steer clear of three African countries as the death toll from an Ebola outbreak continues to grow.
Officials are warning people to avoid any non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as the number of Ebola deaths approaches 800.
Deadly diseases like Ebola are only a plane ride away. In today’s interconnected world, linked by transoceanic flights, one infected person can trigger a domino effect that pays no attention to borders.
“The concern that people are going to get on these flights and fly from West Africa, where these cases are, to anywhere in the world is … a real possibility,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent.
“I think for a long time people didn’t think that that was going to happen because Ebola was sort of relegated to very remote areas of Africa. Things have changed with our globalized world.”
Ebola patient on West African flights
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