Friday, October 3, 2014
Amid Ebola fears, should the U.S. ban air travel from West Africa?
In this article by Jake Miller CBS-NEWS, it states that the U.S. should ban travel to and from West Africa due to the virus Ebola coming from there. Jake Miller provides a concern to this virus that is being spread across the United States. The first diagnosis of Ebola in the U.S., occurred on Monday here in Texas. Thomas Eric Duncan a liberian national, left West Africa on a flight to the U.S. on September 19. He was accepted to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas on September 26, he was complaining of flu-like symptoms, shortly thereafter he was released. Two days later as symptoms stay the same, he returned to the hospital and was diagnosed with Ebola and he was also placed in isolation. Lisa Monaco, a homeland security advisor to president Obama, said during a new conference in the white house that we should ban flight to and from West Africa. In one of her opinions she states that the most effective way to control this is to simply not allow the passenger on board if sick. Dozens and dozens of people have already been not let on board of a plane for Ebola like symptoms. "We should stop accepting flights from countries that are Ebola stricken", said Governor Bobby Jindal, R-Louisiana, in a statement. Even countries in Africa have banned flights due to Ebola. I agree, i think we should ban flights ASAP and we should have banned flights from West Africa at the beginning of this year because now its spread and hopefully we can cure every single cause of it and get it out of our country.
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