US nurse says she will fight Ebola quarantine
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US nurse says she will fight Ebola quarantine.
The US nurse who cared for patients with Ebola virus disease in west Africa and is now being held in quarantine in her home in Maine said on 29 October that she would challenge her detention in court. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, was held in an isolation tent for three days outside a New Jersey hospital over the weekend after she returned from Sierra Leone. The 33 year old nurse was found to have a ...
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The decision by several US states to quarantine health workers returning from west Africa for 21 days could make it harder to end the outbreak of Ebola virus disease, the Obama administration warned over the weekend. Four states—NewYork, New Jersey, Florida, and Illinois—have said they will require mandatory quarantine of anyone who has had contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus whi...
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One of the two US nurses who contracted Ebola virus disease while caring for a patient from west Africa in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, has been released from the high level bio-containment isolation unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Nina Pham, 26, of Fort Worth, Texas, became infected while taking care of Eric Thomas Duncan, a 42 year old Liberi...
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6555