ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is now the second airport in the country to make sure the Ebola outbreak does not spread to the U.S.
Starting at midnight, anyone who has traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan within the last three weeks will have to be screened.
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Atlanta and Washington Dulles International Airport are the only locations where passengers can be screened. Next week, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston will also start screening.
“I’m glad they’re going to screen them because it is such a horrible disease,” traveler John Porter told Channel 2’s Eryn Rogers.
In the current outbreak, more than 700 people have gotten sick and more than 170 people have died.
"It always seems abstract and far away, but I like to see them keeping precautions," traveler Mark Butts said.
In 2022, the Atlanta airport screened for Ebola. In 2014, Emory treated Ebola patients.
This comes just over a month before the DRC is set to play a FIFA World Cup match against Uzbekistan in Atlanta.
Andrew Giuliani, who heads the White House Task Force for the World Cup, told ESPN that the team from the DRC must isolate for 21 days in Belgium before entering the U.S.
Atlantans say the extra precautions heading into the World Cup are appreciated.
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