O’Hare Airport passengers arriving on flights from West Africa will have their temperature taken beginning next week, as part a federal response to the burgeoning and frightening Ebola epidemic.
The federal screening of passengers arriving on flights from West Africa does not go nearly a far as the screening proposed at Wednesday’s City Council meeting as Chicago prepares to welcome runners arriving from all over the world to participate in Sunday’s Chicago Marathon.
Two influential aldermen — Finance Committee Chairman Edward Burke (14th) and Aviation Committee Chairman Mike Zalewski (23rd) — want to set up screening facilities at both O’Hare and Midway bankrolled by the airlines to test for a broad range of infectious diseases, including Ebola, swine-flu, SARS, hanta virus, measles MRSA and tuberculosis.
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