U.S. 5 airports screening for Ebola in pictures

Passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have their temperatures taken and have to answer questions as they face increased security scrutiny at five major US airports.

Federal officials said Wednesday that they would begin temperature screenings of passengers arriving from West Africa Ebola-affected countries.

The new measures at O'Hare in Chicago, JFK and Newark in the New York area, Washington's Dulles, and Atlanta's airport will begin in the coming days according to federal officials.

“We work to continuously increase the safety of Americans,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. “We believe these new measures will further protect the health of Americans, understanding that nothing we can do will get us to absolute zero risk until we end the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”

The C.D.C. will send personnel to airports to perform the screenings, and Coast Guard members will be deployed to help in the coming weeks.

So far the Ebola outbreak has claimed about 4,000 lives and infected more than 7,200, mostly in West Africa.