Summary New screening measures at key international airports intended to add a layer, he added.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama describes says new screening measures at key international airports are intended to add a layer of protection to measures already employed.
He says the new measures will include more screening questions for passengers arriving from the countries worst hit by the outbreak
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. He says the procedures will allow United States officials to isolate, evaluate and monitor travelers and collect any information about their contacts.
He says the case of Ebola in the U.S. illustrates that "we don t have a lot of margin for error." But he said the chance of an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. "remains extremely low.
