CDC rejects mandatory quarantine for travelers arriving from Ebola stricken nations

CDC rejects mandatory quarantine for travelers arriving from Ebola stricken nations.

Travelers arriving in the United States from the Ebola affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia who do not have a fever or symptoms of the disease—including healthcare workers who have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease—should be actively monitored but do not need to be quarantined, new US guidelines have said. The guidelines were issued on 27 October by the US Centers f...

Active Monitoring of Travelers Arriving from Ebola-Affected Countries - New York City, October 2014-April 2015.

The Ebola virus disease (Ebola) outbreak in West Africa has claimed approximately 11,300 lives (1), and the magnitude and course of the epidemic prompted many nonaffected countries to prepare for Ebola cases imported from affected countries. In October 2014, CDC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented enhanced entry risk assessment and management at five U.S. airports: John F....

Quebec rejects mandatory university for nurses.

Ebola and quarantine.

The governors of a number of states, including New York and New Jersey, recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning to the United States from regions of the world where they may have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease. We understand their motivation for this policy — to protect the citizens of their states from contracting this often-fatal illness. This approac...

Ebola virus disease: temperature checks for travelers?

Recently, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expressed confidence in screening measures being taken at the international airports in West Africa to prevent the spread of Ebola virus disease. Temperature checks for travelers in West Africa have emerged as the favoured front-line, last-minute defense for containing the spread of Ebola virus disease. In concordanc...