The Ebola crisis is changing the way dispatchers take 911 calls.

Because of the Ebola outbreak outside the United States, Dispatchers at the Volusia County communications center have to ask a list of questions of the caller, especially if that caller displays flu like symptoms.

"911 what is your emergency?" Asks a Volusia County dispatcher, reading from a script with a list of new questions in direct response to the new protocol dealing with Ebola concerns in the US.

Dispatchers now want to know if the caller, or the patient traveled to parts of the world where the deadly virus, Ebola, has hit hardest like Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone.

"Just a question we have to ask, did she recently travel out of the country or been in contact with anybody that has traveled out of the country?" Asks the dispatcher.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office knows how important it is for first responders to be adequately trained.

"If they're traveling from one of those countries into our country and present themselves with flu-like symptoms, certainly that’s a health concern and something first responders need to know," said VCSO Spokesman Gary Davidson.

According to the World Health Organization the largest Ebola outbreak in history, has sickened more than 8,000 people and killed close to 4,000 as of Wednesday.

This new protocol comes after Thomas Eric Duncan’s death in Dallas and after a first responder who walked into Duncan's apartment was rushed to the hospital and is being monitored for possible exposure to Ebola.

The hope is these new protocols will help first responders, and hospital workers know what they are dealing with before arriving on the scene.

"First responders are gonna go in personal protective equipment anyway. So I would think that they're gonna pass on that information to the hospital as they bring a patient in that person has been out of the country," said Emergency Communications director John Balloni

Whether or not this becomes part of permanent protocol is yet to be determined.