BA Couple Says U.S. Airports Aren't Taking Many Ebola Precautions

A Broken Arrow couple who now live in West Africa just flew into Tulsa International Airport from Nigeria. The missionaries were surprised they were allowed into an American airport without being questioned or tracked.

Matt and Julie Beemer said people leaving from West Africa can't freely travel through the country. They were checked for signs of sickness everywhere they went.

They were shocked to see American airports aren't taking precautions.

"Tulsa is a global city. There are people coming in and out of TIA all the time. We were just in West Africa 24 hours ago and now we are here,” Matt said.

They came here because people in West Africa are not allowed to freely travel to Zambia where they were set to meet with other with missionaries from other countries.

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Tokunbo Adejuwon's wife is a doctor in Abuja, Nigeria, he said, “It's a situation that could really be bad but it has been contained, precautions have been taken. We haven't had another outbreak since August 31st because great measures have been taken by the government.”

“As we came into America, I mean it's on our passports that we have been in West Africa, an affected area and nobody checked anything. I was quite shocked by that,” Matt said.

They said that was on Tuesday, the same day health officials confirmed the Ebola case in Dallas.

The Beemers point out at every public place West African officials use laser temperature sensors to check for fever.

“I had a cold at one point and as they were going in I thought oh no my temperatures was going to be raised and I was a little bit scared of being quarantined," Julie said.

The thousands of deaths in West Africa point to a larger problem around the world.

"Ebola is a symptom there are so many other things. What if we got Ebola out of the way something else showed up there something that is the basis of this thing," Adejuwon said.

The CDC advises all people who have traveled to an effected region to monitor their health for 21 days.