Monday, October 27, 2014

Govts must not deter Ebola workers, quarantine must be rational -U.N

Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response to Liberia, speaks to district health officials and local leaders at Foya in Lofa County ACCRA (Reuters) - Governments must avoid doing anything to deter desperately needed health workers from coming to West Africa to fight Ebola, the head of the U.N. mission battling the virus said on Monday, adding that quarantine decisions must not be based on hysteria. The U.S. states of New York, New Jersey and Illinois have issued new quarantine rules for people returning from West Africa in response to fears that U.S. federal guidelines do not go far enough to contain an outbreak centred in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone that has infected 10,000 people. ...








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