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Brussels Airport to screen baggage from Ebola-infected areas (union demands)
Reuters ^ | October 17, 2014

Posted on 10/17/2014 10:19:54 AM PDT by maggief

(Reuters) - Brussels Airport, a hub for flights coming from Africa, said on Friday it had hired a specialized firm to check baggage coming from Ebola-hit regions, after a union told its members to no longer handle such items.

The company will screen luggage from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia and destroy any it suspects may be contaminated.

Belgium's socialist union on Wednesday had called on its members at Brussels Airport to no longer handle baggage from infected areas.

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Belgium's health ministry on Friday appointed a national coordinator for Ebola and said it was considering measures such as checking incoming passengers from infected areas.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola

1 posted on 10/17/2014 10:19:54 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Do we laugh or cry at this?


2 posted on 10/17/2014 10:25:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Maybe Obama is hoping that he won’t have to close the flights because all of the intermediate stopover countries will. My God, he’s a f’n idiot, at best.


3 posted on 10/17/2014 10:44:15 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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