Canada Screens 1 Congolese Traveler on Diverted Detroit Flight as Ebola Risk Stays Low
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Updated · WXYZ 7 Action News Detroit · May 21
Canada Screens 1 Congolese Traveler on Diverted Detroit Flight as Ebola Risk Stays Low
14 articles · Updated · WXYZ 7 Action News Detroit · May 21
Montreal quarantine officials found the Congolese passenger on the diverted Air France flight showed no Ebola symptoms and sent the traveler back to Paris rather than onward to Detroit.
The plane was diverted because the passenger had boarded in error during a Central Africa outbreak, while US rules bar non-citizens who were in Congo, Uganda or South Sudan within the past 3 weeks.
Health officials said exposure risk to other passengers appears very low because Ebola is not contagious before symptoms begin and spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids, not through the air.
CDC officials say the overall public risk remains low and there are currently no Ebola cases in the United States, though symptoms can emerge 2 to 21 days after exposure.
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