Official: more than 400 tested at NY-area airports

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NEW YORK (AP) – The executive director of the agency that operates the New York area’s three major airports says more than 400 people have been screened for Ebola, with no one found to have the virus.

Patrick Foye of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Wednesday that 389 people had been screened at JFK Airport and 68 at Newark Liberty Airport in the last week or so.

Foye said he has directed that restrooms in areas where screening takes place be cleaned twice as often to guard against possible infection. He says the same order covers the cleaning of planes that have arrived carrying passengers from West Africa.

A passenger suspected to have Ebola who arrived at Newark Airport on Tuesday night was determined not to have the virus.

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