University administrators in the United States tries to prevent the Ebola virus disease outbreak in their campuses.
College students from West Africa are set to arrive in the country to study, Associated Press reported.
The students may need to undergo extra health check-ups to insulate the campuses from any possible occurrence of the disease.
With the increasing Ebola virus disease casualties in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, U.S. authorities are on alert status as thousands of students from West African countries are arriving to study.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population via human-to-human contact.
Ebola outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%. Unfortunately, no licensed treatment or vaccine is available for human or animal consumption..
As of August, the WHO has recorded an estimated 1200 deaths in West Africa.
The American College Health Association has recommended that its members update their emergency and precautionary plans against the fatal disease. Colleges are also urged to know the origin of their students and check the temperature of students arriving from affected countries.
According to the federal government, there are 9,728 students from Nigeria, 204 from Liberia, 169 from Sierra Leone, and 95 students from Guinea studying in the U.S. universities.
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not recommended any actions for colleges, but health departments of some states have their administrators know what symptoms to look out for and how to properly address them.
