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New policy by the states of New York and New Jersey requiring all health workers coming from Ebola-stricken West African countries to be automatically confined

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Police officers guard the building where Dr. Craig Spencer lives in New York, October 23, 2014. Spencer, who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients, tested positive for Ebola and was in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz From Reuters (New York) - 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... Read more - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/25/us-health-ebola-newyork-idUSKCN0IC2CU20141025 From Reuters (Geneva) - The death toll from the Ebola epidemic rose to 4,922 ...

Ebola patient told hospital he had been to Liberia

Ebola cases could reach 550,000 to 1.4 million by late January: CDC

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Image via Reuters.com (Reuters) - Between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with the Ebola virus by January 20, 2015, according to a study published on Tuesday by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).    The top range of the estimate, 1.4 million, assumes that the number of cases, 5,864 according to the count kept by the World Health Organization, is significantly underreported, and that it is likely that 2.5 times as many cases, or about 15,000, have in fact occurred. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-health-ebola-cdc-idUSKCN0HI1KK20140923