Florida Orders 21-Day Monitoring for Ebola

Sunday, October 26, 2014
By Paul Martin

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
ABCNews.com
Oct 26, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is ordering twice daily monitoring for anyone returning from places the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates as affected by Ebola.

Scott signed the order Saturday, giving the Florida Health Department authority to monitor individuals for 21 days. Scott said in a press release that his administration had asked the CDC to identify risk levels of returning individuals from specific parts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — and had asked specifically about for four people who had already returned — but that the CDC had not provided the information.

“Therefore, we are moving quickly to require the four individuals who have returned to Florida already – and anyone in the future who will return to Florida from an Ebola area – to take part in twice daily 21-day health evaluations with DOH personnel,” he said.

Scott said the health department did use the CDC’s web-based system to identify the four individuals.

The CDC did not immediately respond to an Associated Press inquiry Sunday regarding Scott’s complaint.

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