Tuesday, August 12, 2014

No Ebola Screening at JKIA?

This post is by a friend on her FB page but it got me worried.
My family arrived at JKIA at 4am today from Liberia via Cairo. We asked an airline official on duty where Ebola screening was being done, he had no idea. We went to the medical office at the arrivals lounge and it was closed. We went to the Customer Service desk and asked the lady manning it about the issue. She casually told us none of the screening officials was around and that we should proceed to the regular immigration desk. The immigration officials noted that we were coming from Liberia but did not mention Ebola. We left the airport without being screened.
Kenya is a major transit hub and KQ is still flying in daily plane loads of people from those countries. Even more people are coming via transit from other countries like we did. How long until an Ebola infected person comes through our airport? 

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