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First off: no, you’re probably not going to get Ebola. Again, you’re probably not going to get Ebola.

That being said, as reported yesterday, the Center for Disease Control has implemented “enhanced screenings” for potential Ebola patients at five U.S. airports—New York’s JFK International Airport, New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and Dulles International Airport. Those five airports, the CDC says, accounts for “94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.”

Beginning today, CDC has sent additional staff all five airports to assist with “enhanced screenings” for potential Ebola patients. While the screenings will only occur for passengers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, we here at DCist feel necessary to let you know what to expect, so you won’t see men in biohazard suits and start freaking out that you might have Ebola. Because the last thing we need is to fuel the panic flame. Anyway, here’s what to expect, per the CDC:

• Travelers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone will be escorted by CBP to an area of the airport set aside for screening.
• Trained CBP staff will observe them for signs of illness, ask them a series of health and exposure questions and provide health information for Ebola and reminders to monitor themselves for symptoms. Trained medical staff will take their temperature with a non-contact thermometer.
• If the travelers have fever, symptoms or the health questionnaire reveals possible Ebola exposure, they will be evaluated by a CDC quarantine station public health officer. The public health officer will again take a temperature reading and make a public health assessment. Travelers, who after this assessment, are determined to require further evaluation or monitoring will be referred to the appropriate public health authority.
• Travelers from these countries who have neither symptoms/fever nor a known history of exposure will receive health information for self-monitoring.

Now you know. Again, you’re probably not going to get Ebola. Stop reading The Hot Zone.