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UN calls for tests on passengers in Ebola crackdown
Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia. Reuters
Ebola-affected countries should immediately begin exit screening all passengers leaving international airports, sea ports and major ground crossings, the UN health agency urged yesterday.
The risk of the Ebola virus being transmitted during air travel is low because, unlike infections such as influenza or tuberculosis, it is not spread by breathing air and airborne particles from an infected person.
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