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Boston's Logan Airport to Open New Quarantine Station
by Jeremy Olson, contributing writer for AnaiRhoads.org
AnaiRhoads.org - In response to the growth of infectious diseases in the United States, the federal government has decided to open a quarantine station before the year's end at Boston's Logan International Airport in order to examine travelers who might possibly pose a health threat to the area.
The quarantine station will have a five-person staff from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control whose purpose is to train airport personnel on how to detect threatening health conditions. Terminal E, which handles international arrivals, is the proposed site for the facility.
Maria Pia Sanchez, the office in charge for the Centers for Disease Control team at the airport, was quoted as saying, "We are most interested in people with fever accompanied by rash, stiff neck, jaundice, cough, or unusual bleeding with severe diarrhea with or without fever."
Sanchez would go on to add, "While avian flu is what is on most people's minds right now, the most common quarantinable disease we pick up through our quarantine stations is tuberculosis. A case of TB can be imported from just about any country."
Logan International Airport's quarantine site is part of a federal effort to increase the number of stations throughout the country. A similar one is in place at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Other stations are located in major cities spread throughout the United States such as Miami, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Plans are already being made next year for stations to be added at airports in Washington, San Juan, Houston, Minneapolis, Detroit, and San Diego. At the end of next year, there is predicted to be 25 airport quarantine stations around the United States.
Jeremy Olson has a B.A. from Bluffton University in Ohio. He has authored and ghostwritten numerous articles and reviews across the Internet.
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