Mandatory Ebola Testing Ordered in Florida

Floridians who visit Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea on business or pleasure will find now find mandatory Ebola monitoring waiting for them when they return home.

Gov. Rick Scott has officially joined the governors of New York, New Jersey and Illinois in ordering a 21-day mandatory monitoring program for anyone who travels to Ebola-affected parts of the world. The test includes twice-daily monitoring, according to Bay News 9.

While Florida has no direct flights from those countries, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified four people who recently returned to the state from Ebola-stricken areas, ABC News reported.

The risk of the four having the virus is not immediately clear.

Even so, Scott was quoted by ABC as saying the state wanted to move quickly to test those four people “and anyone in the future who will return to Florida from an Ebola area.”

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