N.Y., N.J., Illinois to impose new Ebola quarantine rules

Washington Post ^ | 10/25/2014 | Brady Dennis et. al.

[RightGeek]

... his own Ebola diagnosis prompted the governors of New York and New Jersey on Friday to impose a mandatory 21-day quarantine for medical workers returning from the countries hit hardest by the epidemic. Illinois later in the day imposed similar restrictions.

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“For everybody who is professionally trying to go to the three epidemic countries, the situation has become more difficult with each passing day and each Ebola case — or alleged Ebola case — named in the United States,” said Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, who says returning health workers should voluntarily isolate themselves upon return.

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Doctors Without Borders, which employed Spencer in Guinea and has led the effort to combat Ebola in West Africa, said this week that quarantining is neither warranted nor recommended in the absence of symptoms and that as long as a returning staffer remains healthy, “normal life can proceed.”

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Meanwhile, the North Carolina-based international relief group Samaritan’s Purse, which has nearly two dozen expatriate staffers working in Liberia, has chosen to go beyond CDC recommendations.

“We just didn’t have confidence in them, quite frankly,” Samaritan’s Purse Vice President Ken Isaacs said of the CDC guidelines. “We felt more strict protocols were in order, so we created our own.”

The relief group began requiring all returning staff to stay isolated for 21 days, away from family members. The organization houses workers within an hour’s drive of medical facilities, such as Emory University or the NIH, which are equipped to handle Ebola patients, in case someone gets sick. The workers, who are paid their normal salaries, are not allowed to take public transit or touch anyone, and they must take their temperature multiple times a day.

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[trebb]

Doctors without Borders are full of crap.

I've seen some substandard doctors with walls full of their "charity" work done in other countries. While I think more of a person who will do this, some might very well be building a false resume' to make up for lack of ability.

[ronnie raygun]

This irresponsible skunk should be jailed if he ever survives, he knew where he came from, he knew the dangers of working with ebola, instead of quarantining himself before he entered this country he came in arrogantly walked the streets of NY and put millions in danger. Yet the compassionate, suck##es in the media talk about him as if he's a hero, the media is our enemy

[bert]

There is no money in Ebola so Obama has opted out.

By dithering Obama has forced the action on the governors who must take the heat for creating profiles and discriminating between those who don’t have the malady and those that might.

If there is any political down side or no money to be stolen from the treasury, Obama will not act. He will dither. That is his MO since he was a kid smoking weed.

Does Malia have the Choom habit yet?