India, May 21 -- US health authorities have introduced enhanced Ebola screening measures after a traveler from an outbreak region in Central Africa was removed from a Detroit-bound flight and assessed by health officials in Canada.

According to the Daily Mail, the passenger, a Congolese national traveling from Paris to Detroit, was taken off the plane after it was diverted to Montreal amid new Ebola-related travel restrictions.

Mark Johnson, spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said the traveler was evaluated by a quarantine officer after landing in Montreal.

Officials later determined the passenger was asymptomatic and allowed the aircraft to continue to Detroit on Wednesday. The traveler subsequently returned to Paris...