This Article is From Oct 16, 2014

EU to Launch 'Immediate' Review of Exit Screening in Ebola-Hit African States

EU to Launch 'Immediate' Review of Exit Screening in Ebola-Hit African States

Health workers wait to carry the body of a person suspected to have died from Ebola in Liberia (AP).

Brussels: EU health ministers agreed on Thursday to launch an immediate review of screening of passengers departing Ebola-hit countries in West Africa, health commissioner Tonio Borg said.

The European Commission "will immediately undertake an audit of exit screening systems in place in the affected countries... to check their effectiveness and reinforce them as necessary," Borg told reporters after meeting the ministers in Brussels.

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