Most Americans Favor Temporary Flight Ban from Ebola-Infected Countries

New Rasmussen Reports poll data suggests most Americans would be in favor of a temporary flight ban from Ebola-infected countries in Africa, where the death toll from the deadly virus has risen to over 3,000.

More than half of those surveyed (58 percent) say they'd be in favor of a temporary flight ban of all flights coming from countries where there are confirmed Ebola infections, while 24 percent say they don't think there should be such a ban. Seventeen percent are undecided.

Most Americans are at least somewhat concerned personally about the threat of the virus, a number which has climbed from 51 percent in mid-September.

At the end of September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared its first case of Ebola in the United States: an infected man traveling from Liberia to Texas. Contacts of the patient have been quarantined for 21 days to see if they show symptoms of the virus.

The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted Oct. 4-5 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.