Possible new Ebola patient hospitalized in Newark, NJ: another staffer at Doctors Without Borders.

[pnwmom]

Hopefully this is a false alarm, but I'm glad they're reacting cautiously.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/new-york-new-jersey-will-quarantine-ebola-doctors-n233536

On Friday, a staffer of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) who had been treating Ebola patients in West Africa was quarantined after arriving at Newark Airport. The New Jersey Department of Health said the worker showed no symptoms initially but developed a fever Friday evening and was isolated at University Hospital in Newark.

[kestrel91316]

1. It's no "alarm" at all. NJ has instituted a policy of formally, forcibly quarantining all returning

medical personnel.

So has NY.

[pnwmom]

2. Except that this person has a fever, so Ebola is more than an abstract possibility. n't

[LisaL]

3. They are saying she developed a fever.

That's alarming.

[scarystuffyo]

5. yup

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Let's hope that's all it is but NY and NJ made a good decision on quarantining her.

[sabbat hunter]

4. and peter king

will be saying again we should stop all flights coming from West Africa (even if they are US citizens). in 3.....2....1

[notadmblnd]

6. Chris Christie announced today that anyone returning to NJ from a West African country would be

quarantined whether they were presenting with symptoms or not.

[pnwmom]

7. Why is that any different than the CDC ordering Dr. Nancy Snyder and her staff

to be quarantined for 21 days after their associate developed Ebola?

It's a good idea. Better to quarantine one person now than dozens or more later on, if an exposed person goes on to develop Ebola.

[notadmblnd]

9. Did I express an opinion in regards to what I wrote?

Nope I don't believe I did.

But feel free to engage in the HOF club activities if that's what makes you happy.

[Fred Sanders]

10. Because one has no fucking symptoms? Because the fucking science is being thrown aside to soothe

paranoid and fearful folk who say fuck the science, give me my blankee?

Because also taking her luggage and treating it like it was radioactive is fucking stupid beyond fucking stupid?

[notadmblnd]

11. Swwwweaaaaaty fingers.... Swwweatty fingers....

Sweaty fingers gonna get ya, BOO!

[Fred Sanders]

12. So each State can declare their own foreign entry parameters? What happened to federal powers?

[hrmjustin]

13. State laws give the Governors the power to quarantine in certain circumstances.

I am not too familiar with the laws here but it is legal here in NY.

[notadmblnd]

14. I don't know the legalities

What I'm wondering is, whether they come down with the virus or not, can they sue for unlawful imprisonment? I wonder if the ACLU could answer our questions?

[Fred Sanders]

15. Technically, they are covered, but I think a lawsuit based on unwarranted panic in the face of the

clear science may well have wings.

[Fred Sanders]

8. To go to an impoverished country, from a rich country, and risk your life and health to help the

sick and poor, to sacrifice your own well being and the riches of an American doctor...and to then come back to your rich and paranoid nation to be greeted as a monster...fuck that.

Against all the scientific evidence, bowing to public pressure and paranoia, fuck that too.

[hrmjustin]

16. local tv says her symptoms are getting worse.

[etherealtruth]

17. Can only hope she recovers

[hrmjustin]

18. I hope so.

[LeftInTX]

19. Darn, I thought maybe she was just getting dehydrated

and hot from being stuck in stuffy room.

[hrmjustin]

20. They said her fever spiked but these early reports have been wrong before.

We will know by the morning if she has it.