Stringent Ebola checks for 3 million Haj pilgrims
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King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
A rapid intervention team gets ready to screen arriving passengers for Ebola.
The airport's health director orders the team to check a plane load of pilgrims from Nigeria, where there has been an Ebola outbreak.
The team moves into place.
Saudi Arabia introduced a screening program to check arriving passengers for signs of the deadly Ebola disease.
This, as the country prepares to receive some 3 million pilgrims for the annual Muslim Haj, many of whom will be traveling from Nigeria.
(SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) ABDULGHANI AL-MALKI, DIRECTOR OF THE HEALTH SURVEILLANCE CENTER AT KING ABDULAZIZ INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SAYING:
"This team is working on a 24-hour a day basis. If there are any suspected cases, the team is to intervene and deal with them and accompany the patient on a secure path, transferring them from the airport."
All arriving passengers have to fill out a medical questionnai
A rapid intervention team gets ready to screen arriving passengers for Ebola.
The airport's health director orders the team to check a plane load of pilgrims from Nigeria, where there has been an Ebola outbreak.
The team moves into place.
Saudi Arabia introduced a screening program to check arriving passengers for signs of the deadly Ebola disease.
This, as the country prepares to receive some 3 million pilgrims for the annual Muslim Haj, many of whom will be traveling from Nigeria.
(SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) ABDULGHANI AL-MALKI, DIRECTOR OF THE HEALTH SURVEILLANCE CENTER AT KING ABDULAZIZ INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SAYING:
"This team is working on a 24-hour a day basis. If there are any suspected cases, the team is to intervene and deal with them and accompany the patient on a secure path, transferring them from the airport."
All arriving passengers have to fill out a medical questionnai
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