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GENEVA — Ebola-affected countries should begin exit screening immediately for all passengers leaving international airports, sea ports and major ground crossings, the U.N. health agency said Monday.
The agency noted that the Ebola outbreak involves transmission in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leona and a “small number of people in Nigeria.”
All countries, even those unaffected by the outbreak in West Africa, need to strengthen their ability to detect and immediately contain new cases without doing anything that unnecessarily interferes with international travel or trade, the agency said. But countries don’t need to impose travel restrictions and screening if they do not share borders with Ebola-affected countries, it said.
