{"id":246142,"date":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:46:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-jfk-airport-designated-as-arrival-facility-for-countries-impacted-by-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246142\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Jfk Airport Designated As Arrival Facility For Countries Impacted By Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">JFK Airport will start accepting travelers arriving from countries affected by Ebola.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It will be one of four airports in the United States receiving passengers from Central Africa, according to Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The designation goes into effect for flights departing after 11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prior to this, the agency has been restricting those flights to land only in Virginia, Georgia and Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The CDC will focus public health resources to implement enhanced public health measures at the New York airport.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Seven Ebola cases and one death have been reported in connection with the outbreak in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No cases have been reported in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JFK Airport will start accepting travelers arriving from countries affected by Ebola. It will be one of four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-246142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}