Iowa Governor Terry Branstad told reporters at his weekly news conference that the Hawkeye State does not need to implement an Ebola quarantine. Branstad explained that Iowas has no airports with direct flights from the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

“I understand the great fear that people have about people who have come back and then had Ebola. We don’t want this epidemic to come to the United States, and the governors are trying to do what they can to protect the safety of their citizens,” Branstad told the media, according to The Des Moines Register.

 KCCI Des Moines reports that New Jersey and New York have implemented 21-day quarantines for anyone who arrives in the state after having contact with an Ebola patient.

On September 30, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States. The man who had traveled to Dallas, Texas from Liberia eventually infected two nurses who helped take care of him. They have since been declared Ebola free. Although several other individuals with Ebola have been treated in the U.S., they were infected with the virus while treating patients in West Africa.