States’ Ebola quarantines spark frustration, disagreement between feds, governors
FoxNews.com
October 26, 2014
hree U.S. states imposing mandatory quarantines of health-care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa sparked a furious debate this weekend that included the country’s top infectious-disease doctor saying he would not have recommended such a measure and a quarantined nurse saying she feels like a “criminal.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told “Fox News Sunday” that the 21-day quarantines now being imposed in Illinois, New Jersey and New York can have the unintended consequence of discouraging healthcare workers from volunteering in the West African countries, where an estimated 4,500 people have so far this year died from Ebola.
“We do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer,” he said.
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