(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) French President Francois Hollande has informed world leaders that France will start selective screening at airports to try to detect any Ebola infected passengers, Hollande's office announced.
The decision is part of the measures France is taking and which include bolstering aid and medical assistance to affected countries in West Africa, notably Guinea.
Several other countries, including the US and Britain are screening passengers on arrival from affected areas in West Africa. Screening is also being done and the Eurostar channel tunnel arrival terminal in Britain.
The increased vigilance will be carried out relative to flights from Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia but France mostly has flights from the Guinean capital, Conakry.
So far, Ebola has killed about 4,500 people, mainly in West Africa but there has been a fatality and two contaminations in the US and a death and one contamination in Spain due to the virus.
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