{"id":657489,"date":"2026-05-22T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657489\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:57:09","slug":"united-states-sets-dulles-screening-rule-for-travelers-from-ebola-hit-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657489\/","title":{"rendered":"United States sets Dulles screening rule for travelers from Ebola-hit countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The requirement took effect on May 21, 2026, according to a travel alert issued for <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/tag\/usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S.<\/a> citizens abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The measure applies to travelers who were present in the three countries within 21 days before arriving in the <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/tag\/usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">United States<\/a>. They will be subject to enhanced public health screening at Washington Dulles International Airport, also known as IAD.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be carried out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, together with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>The alert said the measure was introduced in response to an <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/tag\/ebola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ebola<\/a> outbreak. It also noted that the Dulles entry requirement applies to all affected passengers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/tag\/usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S.<\/a> citizens and lawful permanent residents.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers were advised to be ready for possible flight changes or cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier,<a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/kazakh-mfa-issues-travel-advisory-amid-ebola-outbreak-in-africa-d08d71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Qazinform reported <\/a>on the travel advisory issued by the Kazakh MFA amid the Ebola outbreak in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The requirement took effect on May 21, 2026, according to a travel alert issued for U.S. citizens abroad.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-657489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}