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State orders quarantine for workers who had contact with Ebola
California's top health officer has ordered a 21-day home quarantine for all returning medical workers or travelers who have had contact with a confirmed case of Ebola in West Africa, and invoked the possibility of imprisonment and fines if the restrictions are disobeyed. The order, issued Wednesday by California Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ron Chapman, is the latest in a series of measures issued by state governments in response to widespread — and some say unwarranted — public fear. Mandatory quarantines in New York and New Jersey have sparked criticism from international health groups, who say that they lack any basis in science and will merely discourage...
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State orders quarantine for workers who had contact with Ebola
California's top health officer has ordered a 21-day home quarantine for all returning medical workers or travelers who have had contact with a confirmed case of Ebola in West Africa, and invoked the possibility of imprisonment and fines if the...
California issues quarantine policy for Ebola exposure
Anyone arriving in California from an Ebola-affected area and who has had personal contact with a person infected with the deadly virus will be quarantined for 21 days, according to an order issued Wednesday by the state's public health director.
Why Ebola quarantine is bad policy: From the front lines
In my mind I didn't call it self-quarantine. I called it my "period of seclusion." But by the time Day 21 ticked by at the end of Monday, with no rush of fever nor corresponding rush of terror since leaving Liberia, I had begun to worry that...
Obama urges praise for U.S. health workers fighting Ebola
President Obama urged Americans on Tuesday to set aside their fears of Ebola and make sure that U.S. healthcare workers who go to West Africa are "applauded, thanked and supported" when they return home. If those workers successfully fight...
Mosquito that can carry deadly disease found in San Diego
A kind of mosquito known to spread the deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever has been found in San Diego for the first time. Four "yellow fever" mosquitoes - formal name, Aedes aegypti - were found in offices at the 32nd Street Naval...
U.S. cases prove Ebola is 'not a death sentence'
When Amber Vinson walked out of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, she became the sixth person in the country to be successfully treated for a disease that kills 70% of its victims in Africa, but has so far killed only one in the United...
Amber Vinson, Dallas nurse treated for Ebola, released from hospital
Amber Vinson, the second of two nurses diagnosed with Ebola this month, is now free of the disease and was discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters she was "so grateful" for the care she received...
Does an Ebola quarantine make sense?
Neither side in the Ebola quarantine debate has presented enough facts to buttress its beliefs about healthcare workers returning to the U.S. from the three afflicted West African nations. But the weight of evidence falls strongly against the use of...
America's epidemic of fear over Ebola
Beware of epidemics in election years. It's unfashionable to express sympathy for politicians these days, but spare an ounce of charity for all those officeholders trying to come up with reassuring responses to the terrifying ? but so...
Disorder among states' Ebola strategies raises worries
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on dealing with travelers from Ebola-stricken regions Monday, but its lack of firm rules left a patchwork of state-by-state strategies that include mandatory quarantines for...
Obama urges Americans to honor aid workers fighting Ebola in Africa
President Obama on Tuesday urged Americans to set aside their fears of the Ebola virus and make sure U.S. healthcare workers who go to West Africa are ?applauded, thanked and supported? when they return home. If those workers are...
Quarantining health workers could worsen Ebola epidemic, officials say
Top Obama administration officials publicly warned Sunday that mandatory quarantines in the U.S. of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who have traveled to Africa to help Ebola patients risked worsening the epidemic. Mandatory...
In Liberia, Ebola survivors care for orphans of the disease
Each has a survival story, one that began with a gesture of love and care and led to hell and back. Eight Liberian survivors of Ebola, they are now caring for children whose parents died of the virus. Their workplace is a temporary...
The Atlantic trots out a dubious source to support an Ebola quarantine
During a panic as severe as the current Ebola event, it's wise to watch the news media for pointers on the right way and the wrong way to inform the public. What may be a good example of the latter was posted Sunday by The Atlantic, which should know better.
Panic, not Ebola, is biggest enemy, civic and health leaders say
There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola so far in Southern California, but anxiety over the disease has taken root. On Friday morning, health officials in Ventura County quelled rumors of a potential Ebola patient in Thousand Oaks. The...
Passengers delayed at John Wayne airport as sick child is treated
The evacuation of a toddler suspected of having meningitis caused delays for other passengers disembarking a flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, to John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Friday afternoon, authorities said. A 2-year-old...
Some Ebola health workers get cold reception upon return home
They're the front-line soldiers: doctors and nurses like New York physician Craig Spencer who leave their families and friends, travel to help sick and dying people in a strange country and confront a dangerous virus. Without them there is no...
WHO reports Ebola cases believed to now top 10,000
More than 10,000 people in West Africa are believed to have contracted Ebola in the biggest outbreak of the deadly disease, and nearly 5,000 have died, according to the latest World Health Organization report, amid concerns about a potential spread...
Looking Ebola in the eye, with help from Camus
Ebola's exponential growth and extraterritorial reach has caused commentators across the ideological spectrum ? from former U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Anthony Zinni to the Daily Kos ? to describe the spread of the virus as an...
Friday's Pictures in the News begins on the East Coast, where patient Nina Pham is hugged by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, outside of National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Pham, the first nur
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