Seeking Unity, U.S. Revises Ebola Monitoring Rules

UPDATE WITH DETAILS OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA MONITORING  (Scroll down)

ROUNDUP OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE QUARANTINE  DISPUTE
NEW YORK TIMES                        Oct. 28, 2014

By SABRINA TAVERNISE, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and HELENE COOPER

The federal government on Monday tried to take charge of an increasingly acrimonious national debate over how to treat people in contact with Ebola patients by announcing guidelines that stopped short of tough measures in New York and New Jersey and were carefully devised, officials said, not to harm the effort to recruit badly needed medical workers to West Africa.

A health worker handed out Ebola information in the Bronx near the home of a boy who tested negative for the virus on Monday. Credit Mike Segar/Reuters

But Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey denounced the guidelines as unsafe for the people of their states, and the Pentagon appeared to be charting an entirely different course as well. Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, ordered a 21-day “controlled monitoring period” that could isolate hundreds of troops on their American bases, away from their families, when they return from the Ebola zone in West Africa....

David Fidler, a law professor and quarantine expert at Indiana University, said: “The problem we are facing is that it’s a patchwork within a patchwork. Now we’ve got the political parade of follies going on. It’s the worst of all possible outcomes.”

Maryland and Virginia to Moinitor Travelers

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Maryland and Virginia to Monitor Travelers

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