Ebola screenings where the world comes to America: Quarantine rooms and contactless thermometers put into action for travelers from disease-ravaged West Africa arriving at JFK

A Moroccan health worker uses a thermometer to screen a passenger at the arrivals hall of the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, on Thursday, Oct 9, 2014. Airline passengers arriving in the U.S. from three West African countries will face temperature checks using no-touch thermometers and other screening measures at five American airports, starting with New York¿s Kennedy on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Abdeljalil Bounhar)
As many as 150 travelers per day arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will be stopped and checked with contactless thermometers in a bid to keep the virus out of the United States.

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