All passengers arriving in the United States from the West African countries where the Ebola outbreak is ongoing will now be monitored for 21 days, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. "Today, we are beginning a new system that will further protect Americans from Ebola," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said at a news conference Wednesday (Oct. 22). This "active post-arrival monitoring" will begin on Monday, Oct. 27 and will include journalists and health care workers returning from the region, as well as CDC staff, Frieden said. The monitoring will add an additional level of safety to other measures already in place to prevent the spread of the virus, Frieden said.
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