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
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 ...