Passenger quarantined after treating Ebola patients in Africa develops fever Update-no ebola

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24. I agree with Marrah_G on this

Plus like I said in another thread, this could very well deter any health care workers and doctors from volunteering in West Africa as well.

I had CNN on in the background, about one half hour ago, and they were discussing a Dr. from Doctors without Borders who is due to come home soon from his stint in West Africa. He lives in Louisiana, but is scheduled to land in Newark. He now wonders if he will be quarantined in NJ for three weeks before he can return home.

I know Cuomo and Christie mean well, although I believe they are under pressure from people who are scared, but it does not seem like that thought through all the logistics.

If it stops folks from volunteering, and we desperately need as many volunteers as we can get, it's more hurtful to the crisis than helpful.

Plus, what's to stop anyone from changing their flight plans. They can land at Dulles instead and take the train to NY.

It's also very demeaning to the real experts, i.e. Doctors without Borders who have helped shape our new protocols. They know so much more about Ebola prevention than Gov. Cuomo and Christie.

And finally, they should be using their positions to educate the public. Not affirm the public's fears. Quarantining people makes it even more frightening to the people who don't understand the disease and its contagiousness. Self-monitoring is quite sufficient. It is not very contagious until you are very, very sick.