Ebola Deaths Spur CDC to Launch Screening at World's Busiest Airport

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published May 23, 2026 at 11:35 AM EDT updated May 23, 2026 at 12:34 PM EDT


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has expanded enhanced Ebola screening to Hartsfield‑Jackson Atlanta International Airport—the world’s busiest airport by passenger volume—as part of an emergency public health response to escalating outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Uganda, federal officials announced Saturday.

The expansion follows a surge in Ebola cases and fatalities across Central and East Africa, alongside heightened global concern over recent imported cases within the region.

By implementing screening at Atlanta, a critical international transit hub, the United States is strengthening its frontline defenses against potential importation of the virus, mitigating risks posed by even a small number of exposed travelers.

CDC officials stated that the measure is part of a "layered prevention approach" designed to intercept and contain high‑consequence pathogens before they spread within the U.S. To date, there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States linked to the ongoing African outbreak.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-expands-ebola-screening-to-worlds-busiest-airport-as-death-toll-rises-11986370

[AverageOldGuy]

1. The Ebola outbreak is a direct consequence of . . .

. . . DOGE.

Long story.

Elon Musk is a white supremacist South African. As I recall, during the apartheid period, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) either cancelled or did not have programs in South Africa because we would not support apartheid.

Remember DOGE's first action was to completely abolish USAID -- wipe it out, stop all programs, close the doors; food shipments from the US were left rotting on the docks in New Orleans; stocks of various vaccines were simply abandoned in Africa. All because Musk hates USAID for their actions toward South Africa.

USAID had programs aimed at controlling and eventually wiping out Ebola. All that stopped immediately when Musk destroyed USAID.

And now we are seeing an Ebola outbreak in Sub-Saharan Africa and god-only-knows what has happened to the vaccine stocks and the people to get vaccine where it is needed.

Thanks to Trump and Musk, we are now frantically trying to stop a pendimec that once was well under control.

[lostincalifornia]

2. The jackasses should have never left the World Health Organization.

[Bayard]

3. There's something about trump that brings on plagues

Covid, Ebola.....what's next? Grasshoppers?

[Timeflyer]

4. R. Preston's non-fiction book, "The Hot Zone," 1994, describes the origin of Ebola virus and a 1989 outbreak.

Scary as hell, reads like a thriller. If this strain is worse and spreads...Don't read this at bedtime.