Intense screening of passengers of
domestic and international inbound flights to
Abuja for the Ebola virus has begun.
The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
and the Nigerian Port Health Services, a
division of the Ministry of Health started the
exercise.
According to Daily Post over 200 passengers
who arrived aboard Ethiopian Airline Flight-
911 on Friday at the arrival wing of the airport,
were the first to be screened for the day.
A port health official explained that they were
looking for passengers whose body temperature
was from 37 degrees.
A Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer was the first
person to test positive for Ebola Virus.
The man was taken from the airport and put in
isolation in a local hospital, were he died on
July 25.
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