"Ebola case prompts talk of enhanced screening at U.S. airports" by Sam Schaffer

"All options are on the table for further strengthening the screening process here in the U.S., and that includes trying to screen people coming in from Ebola-affected countries with temperature checks," a CDC official said Sunday.

Due to the recent Ebola outbreak, airports may introduce additional screening processes in order to prevent further infected individuals from entering the US. The additional screening will most likely be applied to people coming from countries that are experiencing the Ebola outbreak (the African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone) and will consist of a temperature check to detect fever, as well as other procedures to detect other symptoms. The emergence of this new protocol is just one of multiple reactions to the case of Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian who came to the U.S. whilst unknowingly carrying the disease. Duncan, who came to Dallas, Texas to visit his family, was admitted into Texas Presbyterian Hospital a few days after arriving in the city; his symptoms began on September 24th and progressively worsened until the evening of the 25th, during which he checked into the emergency room at Presbyterian. He was at first sent home with an antibiotics prescription- the doctors had misinterpreted his symptoms- and was later taken to the emergency room by ambulance on the 28th, with severe symptoms characteristic of the disease. He is currently being treated in the isolation unit of Presbyterian, and is in critical condition. 

It's pretty surprising to think that the first US city that Ebola would arrive in would be Dallas. But we're lucky in some ways- we have great hospitals here, and the CDC seems to have contained the outbreak well. All we can really do for now is wash our hands well, not eat other people's food and drink, (!) and hope that Duncan manages to survive the disease.