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The Obama administration is considering imposing a quarantine on health workers returning from Ebola-afflicted countries in West Africa after a New York City doctor who had worked in that region tested positive for the often-deadly disease.
A federal Centers for Disease Control spokesman said it is like that changes will be made to current CDC guidelines for medical workers returning open top bus tours in london from the nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Reuters reported Friday afternoon.
"We want to strike the right balance of doing what is best to protect the public's health while not impeding whatsoever open top bus tours in london our ability to combat the epidemic in West Africa. Our risk here will not be zero until we stop the epidemic there."
But soon after that announcement, the governors of New York and New Jersey jointly revealed that they have already instituted a policy of mandatory quarantines of up to 21 days for medical workers returning from the three West African countries after treating open top bus tours in london Ebola patients there, and also are implementing open top bus tours in london additional screening protocols for Ebola at JFK and Newark Liberty Airports.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said authorities will quarantine a woman stopped Friday at Newark's airport after officials learned she had treated Ebola patients in West Africa, and was headed to New York. The woman is not showing any symptoms, he said.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest open top bus tours in london earlier was repeatedly open top bus tours in london pressed with questions about why Dr. Craig Spencer was not in quarantine after he returned to New York on Oct. 17 on the heels of treating Ebola patients in Guinea.
open top bus tours in london Spencer, open top bus tours in london 33, instead was able to freely throughout New York until he developed a fever, and was hospitalized Thursday afternoon. He soon after tested open top bus tours in london positive for Ebola, and remains in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. His fiance and two friends have been placed in quarantine because of contact with him.
Spencer entered the U.S. through John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, where he and other passengers traveling from West Africa had their temperatures taken as part of Ebola-screening efforts adopted last week. Afterward, he had taken his own temperature twice daily, according to the Doctors Without Borders aid group that he had worked with in Guinea.
"I feel fortunate open top bus tours in london and blessed to be standing open top bus tours in london here today," Pham told reporters there. "Through this ordeal I put my trust in God, and my medical team . . . Of course, I am so terribly thankful for everybody involved in my care."
Pham and Vinson contracted Ebola while treating an Ebola patient in Dallas named Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who died Oct. 8. More than 100 people who had contact with Duncan and the two nurses were tracked and monitored as a result.
No one else connected to the Dallas mini-outbreak has developed symptoms of the virus. The lack of infection among his family members and own fiance after being in close contact with him has been cited by health experts as evidence of how difficult it is to transmit Ebola.
open top bus tours in london But the rapid recovery of Vinson and Pham has surprised many, because open top bus tours in london the mortality open top bus tours in london rate for the current epidemic in West Africa has topped 50 percent. Nearly 5,000 people have died from the disease during this outbreak, the worst on record. A 2-year-old girl in Mali, who was the first confirmed case of Ebola in that country, died Friday.
There currently is no approved vaccine or approved treatment open top bus tours in london for Ebola. But authorities have fast-tracked the development of several vaccines, and also have employed some experimental drug treatments on Ebola patients hospitalized in the U.S.
Spencer originally was said to have a temperature of 103 degrees on Thursday morning, when he first notified open top bus tours in london an international medical aid group that he had worked with in West Africa that he was running a fever.
Instead, Spencer had contact with four other people, rode several city subway lines, went for a three mile jog, ate at a restaurant and visited the popular open top bus tours in london High Line elevated walkway open top bus tours in london in Manhattan's Chelsea section. On Wednesday night, Spencer and his fiance went to a Brooklyn bowling alley, on the subway.
Employees from Bio Recovery Corporation carries equipment into 546 West 147th Street, open top bus tours in london the apartment building of Dr. Craig Spencer, the doctor recently diagnosed with Ebola, open top bus tours in london on October 24, 2014 in New York City.
They also said they do not believe Spencer was a threat to his neighbors, since he was not symptomatic until Thursday morning, open top bus tours in london and because Ebola is transmitted only through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids.
The transit system's operator, the MTA, in a statement said, "The New York City Subway system is safe to ride. The person diagnosed with Ebola in New York City rode the subway several times since returning from abroad, but the state and city health commissioners agree there was no risk to any other subway customers or any MTA employees."
Ebola is spread only by contact with the bodily fluids of a contagious person, open top bus tours in london and the virus cannot live for more than a few hours on hard surfaces," the MTA said "There is no indication the patient was contagious when he rode the subway. There is no indication he emitted any bodily fluids on the subway. There were no reports of bodily fluids on any of the subway lines he rode."
The hospital system called Spencer a "dedicated humanitarian ... who went to an area of medical open top bus tours in london crisis to help a desperately underserved population. He is a committed and responsible physician who always puts his patients first.
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University of Pennsylvania Professor Jeremy Siegel said he thinks that the recent gains against the disease—including the recent declaration that Nigeria is now Ebola-free—have led to "much less anxiety" from the New York case compared to previous U.S. infections.
Tevi Troy, former open top bus tours in london deputy secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services, told CNBC in a "Squawk Box" interview on Friday that New York City is the most likely city where Ebola would have appeared given how much traffic goes through New York.
"The patient in Dallas supposedly had about 40 health care workers, which is a lot for a single patient," he said. "And you wonder, if you have multiple cases, to what extent does this begin to strain the health-care open top bus tours in london system, not just in terms of the tracking and tracing but also the protective equipment and the number of health-care workers who are monitoring the person?"
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