All US troops coming back from
Ebola-hit Liberia are to be checked for the virus before
arriving on home soil, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has
decided according to CNN and CBS.
The news came after it was reported that some 30 US
soldiers returning from Liberia are being placed in isolation in
the northeastern Italian city of Vicenza, home to a large US air
base.
The soldiers apparently were met by Carabinieri in full
hazmat suits.
If the policy remains in effect, everyone returning from
Liberia - several hundred - will be placed in isolation for 21
days.
A Pentagon spokesman calls it "enhanced monitoring".
The decision applies only to soldiers returning from
Liberia, the country hardest hit by the virus which has claimed
nearly 5,000 lives in West Africa.
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