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These are the highlights of the updated TB screening procedures for health care personnel working in UNC and UNC Hospital patient care locations. Please note that annual TB testing is no longer required for health care personnel working in UNC Hospitals or UNC SOM clinical locations.

Effective June 17, travelers from Liberia will no longer require active monitoring by North Carolina state or local public health.

Countries with widespread Ebola transmission continue to include Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Mali has now been added to the list of countries with localized transmission.

The Republic of Liberia now has an easy-to-read website for tracking Ebola statistics thanks to a team of students and alumni led by an interactive multimedia instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.