THE NEW MEXICO HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS NO LONGER MONITORING PEOPLE RETURNING TO THE STATE FROM SIERRA LEONE, GUINEA, AND LIBERIA … WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES LINKED TO EBOLA. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT MONITORED 86 MEDICAL AND GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND SOME NATIVE AFRICANS SINCE LATE 2014.
DR. PAUL ETTESTAD WITH THE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY WERE ALL ROUTED THROUGH FIVE AIRPORTS ON THEIR RETURN TO THE U-S. HE SAYS THEY WERE INTERVIEWED AND THEIR TEMPERATURES TAKEN BY THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. ALL WERE ROUTED THROUGH GIVE U-S AIRPORTS: O’HARE, JFK, WASHINGTON DULLES, ATLANTA, OR NEWARK.
THE PROCESS CONTINUED IN NEW MEXICO, BUT ETTESTAD TELLS US NOT ONE PERSON WAS FOUND TO HAVE EBOLA. THE CDC HAS SINCE SENT WORD THAT EBOLA TRANSMISSION CEASED IN WEST AFRICA.
