U.S. restarts airport screening for Ebola as outbreak in Uganda swells

The Biden administration announced Thursday it plans to funnel all passengers flying into the U.S. from Uganda through five international airports for "enhanced screening," in response to a growing Ebola outbreak in Uganda. 

The move, which the State Department said would take effect at midnight on Friday morning, revives a set of measures implemented by federal health authorities in response to previous Ebola outbreaks abroad as recently as 2016. In 2021, the CDC also rerouted passengers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea to collect contact information.

Airlines will be required to route passengers who have been in Uganda during the past three weeks through one of five airports: