Obama’s new airport screening plan uses CUSTOMS AGENTS to spot Ebola as president concedes ‘we don’t have a lot of margin for error’

Tuesday, October 7, 2014
By Paul Martin

President said there will be ‘additional passenger screening both at the source and here in the United States’ because ‘we don’t have a lot of margin for error’
Customs and Border Patrol agents will watch incoming passengers for signs of illness and coordinate with the CDC as needed
Announcement came following an hour-long strategy session with top national security, homeland security and health officials
Administration has decided not to institute a travel ban from affected countries but says that could change
CDC is monitoring 48 people in Dallas who may have come into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, in case they start showing symptoms
Duncan, the first patient diagnosed on US soil, is reportedly struggling to survive after he spent nearly a week in Dallas before landing in isolation

By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor and Michael Zennie
DailyMailUK
7 October 2014

President Barack Obama announced on Monday that the United States will soon implement a new set of protocols to screen suspected Ebola patients so they can’t get off airplanes and enter American airports.

The same Customs and Border Patrol Agents who sift through cargo and luggage for contraband will be the first line of defense, inspecting passengers who arrive from Ebola-ravaged countries and identifying some for further screening.

Obama highlighted his government’s ‘all-hands-on-deck approach’ to stopping a pandemic, but insisted that ‘the chances of an outbreak, of an epidemic here are extraordinarily low.’

The U.S. is ‘going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screening both at the source and here in the United States,’ Obama said in his first Ebola-related public comments, after hearing from national security and homeland security aides and government public health experts.

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