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No mandatory Ebola quarantine for health workers coming to Washington D.C. area
[WAPO] One day after governors in New York, New Jersey and Illinois imposed a mandatory 21-day quarantine on medical workers returning from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa, public health officials in the District, Maryland and Virginia did not follow suit Saturday, intensifying a national debate over how to prevent the spread of the disease.Health officials are working to develop a consistent approach for the area around the nation’s capital. Joxel Garcia, director of the D.C. Department of Health, said that a mandatory quarantine was not scientifically justified and could have a chilling effect on the medical personnel, many of them volunteers, needed to treat Ebola patients at home and overseas. So D.C. becomes an Ebola incubator? Actually, the tourist season is pretty much over. Thank you Joxel. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-26 |
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