Korean Air suspends flights to Kenya over Ebola worries

Health workers take passengers' temperatures infrared digital laser thermometers at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan August 13, 2014. REUTERS/Luc Gnago reuters_tickers

SEOUL (Reuters) – Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Thursday it will suspend flights to and from Nairobi from Aug. 20 to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

Korean Air said it had been operating three return flights from Incheon, South Korea, to the capital of Kenya a week.

The company said it would determine whether to resume the flights based on a change in conditions. It did not elaborate.

(Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Robert Birsel)