--- title: U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screening Air Travelers from Liberia description: Federal agencies have decided to end the mandatory screening for air travelers arriving in the U.S. via Liberia, effective Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-19T13:11:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:05:02.429Z article:section: Health og:title: U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screening for Air Travel from Liberia og:description: The country was declared Ebola-free—for the second time—on Sept. 3 og:url: https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86585dff4dd64eb8/69886461a988ca435c6b468f/gettyimages-474739508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3947 og:image:height: 2220 og:image:alt: US-FRANCE-AVIATION-THREAT-AIRFRANCE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screening for Air Travel from Liberia twitter:description: The country was declared Ebola-free—for the second time—on Sept. 3 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86585dff4dd64eb8/69886461a988ca435c6b468f/gettyimages-474739508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screenings for Air Passengers from Liberia > Sponsored content. 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Trevor Collens—AFP/Getty Images  by [Mandy Oaklander](https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/)  ## Mandy Oaklander Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 19, 2015 1:11 PM UTC Federal agencies have decided to [end the mandatory screening](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/18/ebola-travel-airport-screening-liberia-sierra-leone-guinea-customs-border-protection/72398942/) for air travelers arriving in the U.S. via Liberia, effective Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Customs and Borders Protection decided to remove Liberia from its list of countries requiring additional screening, _USA Today_ reports. The screening, in which travelers fill out questionnaires and have their temperatures checked, is currently conducted at five airports in the U.S. that service connecting flights from West Africa. The World Health Organization declared Liberia, once at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, free of the disease earlier this month on Sept. 3\. The organization had said Liberia was Ebola-free in May, but [infections reappeared this summer](http://time.com/3943047/liberia-ebola-virus-cases/). The two other countries hit hardest by Ebola, Sierra Leone and Guinea, still see new cases. Passengers traveling from Guinea and Sierra Leone will continue to be screened at airports. So far, border patrol has screened almost 31,000 passengers. Of those, 68 have been found to have high temperatures, and 40 were brought to medical facilities for non-Ebola conditions. The others were determined by the CDC not to require additional screening \[[_USA Today_\]](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/18/ebola-travel-airport-screening-liberia-sierra-leone-guinea-customs-border-protection/72398942/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/"},"headline":"U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screenings for Air Passengers from Liberia","datePublished":"2015-09-19T13:11:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:05:02.429Z","description":"The country was declared Ebola-free—for the second time—on Sept. 3","url":"https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/","keywords":["Public Health","Sierra Leone","World Health Organization","ebola","Guinea","Liberia","ebola virus"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86585dff4dd64eb8/69886461a988ca435c6b468f/gettyimages-474739508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mandy Oaklander","jobTitle":"Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86585dff4dd64eb8/69886461a988ca435c6b468f/gettyimages-474739508.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-FRANCE-AVIATION-THREAT-AIRFRANCE","caption":"US-FRANCE-AVIATION-THREAT-AIRFRANCE","creditText":"Trevor Collens—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/public-health/","name":"Public Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4041386/ebola-screening-liberia/","name":"U.S. Will Stop Ebola Screenings for Air Passengers from Liberia"}}]}] ```