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The University apparently asked the two to “Sequester themselves” for 21 days, and they refused.
An older news report but doesn’t have a date.
NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) -
Two students from Yale University are in West Africa after helping the Liberian government after the Ebola outbreak.
The students are part of the Public Health doctoral program. They have been in Liberia since mid-September advising the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on computer systems to monitor the outbreak.
Their fellow students have been closely monitoring their travels.
“I don’t think they should let any stigma associated with Ebola affect the work they’re doing,” said Alex Hua, of the Yale School of Public Health.
Yale originally said the two students would be coming home this weekend and they would be voluntarily isolating themselves for three weeks, which is the incubation period for Ebola.
However, on Monday, the university said the students are still in Liberia and the exact return date has not been determined.
The two students are also closely following travel guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to assure their safety and the safety of their colleagues back home.
With one person being treated for Ebola and the head of the CDC saying more could be expected, places like Yale-New Haven Hospital are tightening protocols.
“We are reinforcing with Emergency Department staff to ask travel history from all patients. This is being added to the normal triage checklist along with a simple algorithm of what to do next if a patient has had travel within the last 21 days to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea or Nigeria,” hospital officials said.
Ebola is also a priority at Protein Sciences in Meriden, where they are working with the federal government to develop a vaccine.
“It would be used for researchers who don’t want to research the virus because they don’t want to work in it because it’s too dangerous,” said Dan Adams of Protein Sciences.
Yale officials said that the students have never been in contact with anyone who was sick but that is not stopping them from being extra cautious.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/26716874/yale-students-staying-in-west-africa-following-ebola-outbreak