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I work with ESL kids that regularly come here directly from overseas. Several from Africa. If I was in contact with one of our students who was diagnosed with Ebola I'd have no problem with being
quarantined for the safety of my family, friends, etc.

Kudos to you but unless the kid was vomiting and shitting all over your classroom and sneezed in your mouth it'd be unnecessary.

Plus the situations aren't the same. The doctors coming back know that they're dealing with Ebola. Ebola is even less likely to be spread if you know someone has it and have the proper protection. Obviously there are some mistakes made and thats why some doctors are getting Ebola, but that has a lot to do with the poor conditions they're working in.

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Several factors help explain the high proportion of infected medical staff. These factors include shortages of personal protective equipment or its improper use, far too few medical staff for such a large outbreak, and the compassion that causes medical staff to work in isolation wards far beyond the number of hours recommended as safe.

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Several infectious diseases endemic in the region, like malaria, typhoid fever, and Lassa fever, mimic the initial symptoms of Ebola virus disease. Patients infected with these diseases will often need emergency care. Their doctors and nurses may see no reason to suspect Ebola and see no need to take protective measures.

Some documented infections have occurred when unprotected doctors rushed to aid a waiting patient who was visibly very ill. This is the first instinct of most doctors and nurses: aid the ailing.

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Doctors are gonna recognize the symptoms of Ebola and turn themselves in for quarantine. Since the disease doesn't spread until you're displaying symptoms this mandatory quarantine is just a deterrent for doctors to go over there and help and could make things worse instead of better.

Also we've had a grand total of one doctor flying back to the US and being diagnosed over here. One.

This is one hell of an overreaction, especially considering only one other person has brought the disease over.

This post was edited on 10/27/14 at 4:26 pm