Authorities has ruled out screening travelers for Ebola when they arrive in the UK, a British health agency said on Tuesday.

Public Health England (PHE) said “there are no plans to introduce entry screening for Ebola in the UK,” despite admitting that there is a “real” risk of importing Ebola to the UK.

Entry-screening is not recommended by the World Health Organization, and doing so in the UK would mean screening “huge numbers of low risk people,” according to PHE.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours after Barack Obama said the U.S. government was contemplating the possibility of more careful screening of travelers coming back from west Africa. Also on Monday, a high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health said that added screening at U.S. airports is an option that’s “on the table.”

Currently, there are no special procedures in place when a traveler enters the U.S. upon returning from one of the countries affected with Ebola (which, until this week, has been limited to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone). Customs agents simply look for signs of illness, which is already part of its standard procedure, and hand out a CDC fact sheet describing Ebola symptoms. It warns travelers: “If you were exposed to Ebola during your trip, call your doctor even if you do not have symptoms.”

PHE added that “the overall risk of Ebola to the UK remains low.”

On Monday, a Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of western Africa, where the virus has killed more than 3,400 people in the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

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