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UPDATE 1-U.S. quarantines 'chilling' Ebola fight in West Africa - MSF
Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:19pm GMT
http://af.reuters.com/article/guineaNews/idAFL1N0SP3DK20141030?sp=true
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK Oct 30 (Reuters) - Mandatory quarantines ordered by some U.S.
states on doctors and nurses returning from West Africa's Ebola
outbreak are creating a "chilling effect" on Doctors Without Borders
operations there, the humanitarian group said on Thursday.
In response to questions from Reuters, the group said it is discussing
whether to shorten some assignments as a result of restrictions
imposed by some states since one of its American doctors, Craig
Spencer, was hospitalized in New York City last week with the virus.
"There is rising anxiety and confusion among MSF staff members in the
field over what they may face when they return home upon completion of
their assignments in West Africa," Sophie Delaunay, executive director
of Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
Doctors Without Borders is also known by its French name, Médecins
Sans Frontières, or MSF.
Some MSF workers are delaying their return home after their
assignments and staying in Europe for 21 days, Ebola's maximum
incubation period, "in order to avoid facing rising stigmatization at
home and possible quarantine," Delaunay said in her statement.
"Some people are being discouraged by their families from returning to
the field," she said.
The governors of New York and New Jersey announced strict new
screening rules at airports last Friday, including mandatory 21-day
quarantines for any healthcare worker who had been treating Ebola
patients in West Africa.
Only one person is known to have been quarantined as a result of the
new rules, nurse Kaci Hickox, who was confined to a tent against her
will for several days after arriving at Newark Liberty International
Airport in New Jersey last Friday. Hickox, 33, was returning from
Sierra Leone, where she had cared for Ebola patients as an MSF
healthcare worker.
Hickox, who tested negative for Ebola and says she is completely
healthy, has strongly criticized the quarantine policy in New Jersey
and then in her home state of Maine, where she was taken to finish her
21-day quarantine at home.
She went for a bike ride on Thursday, putting her on a collision
course with Maine Governor Paul LePage, whose office said he would
exercise his legal authority to keep her quarantined.
Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:19pm GMT
http://af.reuters.com/article/guineaNews/idAFL1N0SP3DK20141030?sp=true
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK Oct 30 (Reuters) - Mandatory quarantines ordered by some U.S.
states on doctors and nurses returning from West Africa's Ebola
outbreak are creating a "chilling effect" on Doctors Without Borders
operations there, the humanitarian group said on Thursday.
In response to questions from Reuters, the group said it is discussing
whether to shorten some assignments as a result of restrictions
imposed by some states since one of its American doctors, Craig
Spencer, was hospitalized in New York City last week with the virus.
"There is rising anxiety and confusion among MSF staff members in the
field over what they may face when they return home upon completion of
their assignments in West Africa," Sophie Delaunay, executive director
of Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
Doctors Without Borders is also known by its French name, Médecins
Sans Frontières, or MSF.
Some MSF workers are delaying their return home after their
assignments and staying in Europe for 21 days, Ebola's maximum
incubation period, "in order to avoid facing rising stigmatization at
home and possible quarantine," Delaunay said in her statement.
"Some people are being discouraged by their families from returning to
the field," she said.
The governors of New York and New Jersey announced strict new
screening rules at airports last Friday, including mandatory 21-day
quarantines for any healthcare worker who had been treating Ebola
patients in West Africa.
Only one person is known to have been quarantined as a result of the
new rules, nurse Kaci Hickox, who was confined to a tent against her
will for several days after arriving at Newark Liberty International
Airport in New Jersey last Friday. Hickox, 33, was returning from
Sierra Leone, where she had cared for Ebola patients as an MSF
healthcare worker.
Hickox, who tested negative for Ebola and says she is completely
healthy, has strongly criticized the quarantine policy in New Jersey
and then in her home state of Maine, where she was taken to finish her
21-day quarantine at home.
She went for a bike ride on Thursday, putting her on a collision
course with Maine Governor Paul LePage, whose office said he would
exercise his legal authority to keep her quarantined.