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Associated Press October 8, 2014 updated 3:43 PM
By Licia A. Caldwell
President Barack Obama said the new efforts would provide yet another tier of protection at key U.S. points of entry.
However, the focus is still on stopping the epidemic in West Africa, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas Frieden, said in Atlanta.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said the additional layer of screening would begin at New York's JFK International and the international airports in Newark, Washington Dulles, Chicago and Atlanta. He said the new steps would include taking temperatures and would begin Saturday at JFK.
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DHS Secretary Johnson says screening will be expanded.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said the goal was to expand airport screenings for Ebola internationally to "as many different checkpoints as possible." He did not elaborate in his comments made while speaking yesterday to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.