WATCH ABOVE: The fight against Ebola continues as states put stricter quarantines in place for certain travelers from West Africa. Ron Allen reports.
WASHINGTON – The nation’s top infectious control doctor says mandatory quarantines of Ebola patients can have what he calls the unintended consequence of discouraging health care workers from volunteering in the Ebola-ravaged countries of West Africa.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He says that as a physician and scientist, he would not have recommended a quarantine.
New York, New Jersey and Illinois have imposed mandatory quarantines on travellers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients.
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That move followed an Ebola diagnosis in a Doctors Without Borders doctor last Thursday. The doctor is now in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Fauci tells “Fox News Sunday” that active and direct monitoring can accomplish the same thing.
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