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 Traveling on a U.S. government plane, Power's delegation did not
come in contact with any Ebola patients during a visit to Guinea,
Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries worst affected by the
deadly hemorrhagic fever that has killed some 5,000 people.
Customs and Border Protection officers at New York's John F. Kennedy
airport took Power's temperature and she then answered several
questions about her health and whether she had come in contact with
anyone infected with Ebola.
Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected
person or the still-contagious body of someone who has died of the
virus. It has a 21-day incubation period. Power left West Africa on
Wednesday.
Power was given an information kit that included a thermometer and a
card to record her temperature twice daily. She is required to
report her temperature and any symptoms twice daily to the New York
State health department.
Several U.S. states, including New York where the United Nations is
headquartered, have imposed a mandatory quarantine on healthcare
workers returning from the region who had contact with Ebola
patients.
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Speaking in Brussels earlier on Thursday, Power said some countries
had yet to shoulder their share of the Ebola response burden and
some restrictions on aid workers returning home from West African
nations hit hardest by the disease could deter thousands from
helping.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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