New York and New Jersey have realized the danger Ebola represents and have implemented new quarantine procedures. These common sense measures have put a medical worker in quarantine who has now developed a fever. The federal government is either incompetent or complicit in their actions. What is your state doing to protect its state’s citizens? And what is your state doing to ensure your rights are not tread upon under the guise of a medical emergency?
David DeGerolamo
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Update 2:
Woman quarantined in New Jersey tests negative for Ebola
A preliminary test shows that a health care worker who traveled to West Africa does not have Ebola, New Jersey officials said Saturday. But the unidentified woman will remain in quarantine at a hospital in Newark for at least 21 days under a controversial new state policy.
The health care worker, who arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday, had treated Ebola patients in a region ravaged by the disease. She did not initially display symptoms of Ebola but later developed a fever, said New Jersey Health Department spokeswoman Donna Leusner.
The woman denied that she had a fever, however, according to a friend, Dr. Seema Yasmin.
Update 1:
Quarantined Traveler Who Returned To N.J. From West Africa Develops Fever
A health care worker who was quarantined at Newark Liberty International Airport after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa developed a fever and was being evaluated Friday night.
Medical worker quarantined in New Jersey under new Ebola safeguards
A medical worker quarantined in New Jersey on her return from treating Ebola victims in West Africa was being evaluated in a hospital isolation ward on Saturday after new contagion-control safeguards were imposed for America’s biggest urban center.
She was the first to be quarantined under a policy imposed on Friday by the states of New York and New Jersey requiring all health workers coming from Ebola-stricken West African countries to be automatically confined for monitoring during the 21-day incubation period of the virus.
