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Ebola screening measures rest on federal law

By Eric Tucker
Published October 10, 2014 9:33pm ET
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Ebola screening measures rest on federal law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s authority to screen airline passengers for potential Ebola exposure and order them quarantined if necessary is far-reaching and rooted in the Constitution and federal law, public health experts say. Temperature checks of passengers arriving from three West African countries experiencing the Ebola outbreak, along with other screening measures, will begin […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s authority to screen airline passengers for potential Ebola exposure and order them quarantined if necessary is far-reaching and rooted in the Constitution and federal law, public health experts say.

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