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US temporarily bans green-card holders from entering country from African nations
Order aimed at preventing spread of Ebola to US affects travelers who have visited three countries in last 21 days
TL;DR
- Green-card holders who have traveled to the DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan in the last 21 days are temporarily banned from entering the US.
- This ban is part of an expanded effort to prevent Ebola from entering US borders.
- US citizens returning from these countries now have additional points of entry besides Washington's Dulles airport.
- Enhanced Ebola screening is being expanded to include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport.
- The World Health Organization has raised the risk of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola becoming a national outbreak in the DRC to 'very high' and declared the outbreak an emergency of international concern.
- Ten African countries have been identified as being at risk from the Ebola virus.
- Incidents of violence and attacks on health centers have occurred in the DRC, with residents reportedly attacking and burning part of a health center and 18 suspected individuals leaving the facility.
- Funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people have been banned in parts of the DRC to curb the spread of the virus.