A hazardous material cleaner removes items from the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last week, in Dallas on Oct. 6. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

(Bloomberg) — The Obama administration is considering screening airline passengers for Ebola symptoms as they arrive in the U.S. from some West African nations, an approach that had been previously rejected.

In advance of a meeting on the Ebola outbreak at the White House today, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, said President Barack Obama’s administration is discussing adding the additional step to passenger screenings now being conducted in the African nations stricken by the disease.

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