The outbreak has caused neighboring Uganda to close its border with Congo except for emergency response teams and humanitarian operations.
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Geography may not provide meaningful protection once an outbreak is already underway.
All passengers from Congo, Uganda or South Sudan must enter the U.S. through airports in New York, Atlanta, Houston or Washington D.C.
More countries have enacted travel bans on residents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and South Sudan, which have been ravaged by an ongoing Ebola outbreak.
A US traveller reported no Ebola screening at Dulles Airport despite new restrictions, raising questions about the consistency of health protocols during outbreaks.
A suspected Ebola patient is being quarantined in an Austrian hospital after displaying symptoms of the deadly virus.
The World Health Organization has advised against countries closing their borders despite the risk to neighbouring nations ...
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Canada has banned travelers from the DRC, Uganda and South Sudan from entering the country for 90 days and the U.S. has banned non-citizens who traveled to the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan in recent weeks from entering the country.
Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring DR Congo for four weeks in an effort to contain an Ebola outbreak.
The measure, which goes against the guidance by the World Health Organization, underscores growing fears of contagion in East Africa from Bundibugyo, a rare type of the Ebola virus that is behind this outbreak and that has no approved medicines or .. ...