Despite some political pressure to impose travel bans for Ebola stricken countries, the United States has decided to go with a more moderate approach. Rather than prevent all travel that could carry the virus into American soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has opted to channel at risk passengers through five specific airports in the country.

The move is meant to help increase screening efforts and efficiencies while keeping the potential for public exposure to a minimum. All traffic coming from the three hardest hit countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will be checked for signs of fever and other symptoms of the virus upon landing.

Estimates indicate that only about 150 people are traveling to the United States from this area of the world each day. Of these, all but nine people, roughly six percent, already come to one of the five airports being used. Currently, there are no direct flights between this region of the world and the United States.

These measures also mean that travelers wishing to protect themselves from rare chances of exposure can easily schedule flights around the redirected traffic.

So far, only three people have been diagnosed with the virus while in the United States. Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed four days after coming to the country from Liberia. Since then, two of the nurses who treated him have been diagnosed. Duncan died on October 8, while both nurses are slowly recovering.

112 people in Texas are in isolation as a precautionary screening for the virus.

The decision to impose restriction rather than bans for travel has been met with some criticism. Some politicians feel that President Obama is not utilizing a viable solution to protection for the American public. However, a spokesperson for the White House insists that Obama would consider the option if his advisers thought it was best.

According to the statement from the White House, Obama’s advisers feel that cutting off all air traffic for the region would be detrimental to global containment of the virus because it would prevent aid from reaching the actual outbreak.