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The doctor spends time with the infected in Africa. He returns home and socialises for 10 days before being diagnosed himself. There was no quarrantine involved. New Yorkers are now worried that they may have had contact with the doctor.
Does this not count as terrorism? The doctor didn't wish to cause public panic but it is irresponsible to be around Ebola and then return home without ensuring he was clear. We have different versions of murder - murder if it's deliberate, manslaughter if it's unintentional and the Americans have 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree murder based on the circumstances. We could have 1st degree terrorism (such as 9/11 or the London bombings), 2nd degree terrorism (such as when someone calls an airport to say there's a bomb when there isn't) and 3rd degree terrorism, such as this case, where irresponsible negligence causes public panic.
Does this not count as terrorism? The doctor didn't wish to cause public panic but it is irresponsible to be around Ebola and then return home without ensuring he was clear. We have different versions of murder - murder if it's deliberate, manslaughter if it's unintentional and the Americans have 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree murder based on the circumstances. We could have 1st degree terrorism (such as 9/11 or the London bombings), 2nd degree terrorism (such as when someone calls an airport to say there's a bomb when there isn't) and 3rd degree terrorism, such as this case, where irresponsible negligence causes public panic.
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I've said all along, the Americans under-estimated how serious the problem was, and they over-estimated how well they could cope with it. They need to aggressively tighten up their procedures for dealing with this.
I can’t see the point with healthcare workers doing all that great work in Africa and then creating a situation when your back home. It would seem a sensible measure for any medical person from Ebola-stricken areas quarantined for 21 days before being allowed to travel?
They say you can only spread it when you have the symptoms and it is not contagious up to that point. This doctor apparently went 10 days before he developed a high fever, but to come from treating the infected in Africa with no quarrantine involved, does seem a bit high risk.
And with the 2 previous cases in Texas when 2 nurses treating a patient both got it, does question how well the Americans are equipped for dealing with it.
They say you can only spread it when you have the symptoms and it is not contagious up to that point. This doctor apparently went 10 days before he developed a high fever, but to come from treating the infected in Africa with no quarrantine involved, does seem a bit high risk.
And with the 2 previous cases in Texas when 2 nurses treating a patient both got it, does question how well the Americans are equipped for dealing with it.
Did astronauts used to get quarantined when returning from the moon?
Ebola outbreak: US nurse criticises quarantine treatment
26 October 2014 Last updated at 01:31
A nurse quarantined on her return to the US from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has criticised the way she was dealt with at Newark airport.
Kaci Hickox said the experience was frightening and could deter other health workers from travelling to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
Illinois has become the third state after New York and New Jersey to impose stricter quarantine rules.
Meanwhile the US ambassador to the United Nations is to visit West Africa.
Samantha Power will travel to Guinea on Sunday, continuing later to Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three worst-hit countries.
"For me the benefits of having first hand knowledge of what is happening in these countries gravely outweighs the almost nonexistent risk of actually travelling to these countries, provided I take the proper precautions," she said on Saturday.
She said she hoped her trip would "draw attention to the need for increased support for the international response".
The White House has expressed concern that strict quarantine restrictions such as those imposed in New York, New Jersey and Illinois could put off aid workers and others travelling to West Africa to help mitigate the crisis at its source.
More than 10,000 people have contracted the Ebola virus, with 4,922 deaths, according to the World Health Organization's latest figures.
Only 27 of the cases have occurred outside Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
26 October 2014 Last updated at 01:31
A nurse quarantined on her return to the US from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has criticised the way she was dealt with at Newark airport.
Kaci Hickox said the experience was frightening and could deter other health workers from travelling to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
Illinois has become the third state after New York and New Jersey to impose stricter quarantine rules.
Meanwhile the US ambassador to the United Nations is to visit West Africa.
Samantha Power will travel to Guinea on Sunday, continuing later to Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three worst-hit countries.
"For me the benefits of having first hand knowledge of what is happening in these countries gravely outweighs the almost nonexistent risk of actually travelling to these countries, provided I take the proper precautions," she said on Saturday.
She said she hoped her trip would "draw attention to the need for increased support for the international response".
The White House has expressed concern that strict quarantine restrictions such as those imposed in New York, New Jersey and Illinois could put off aid workers and others travelling to West Africa to help mitigate the crisis at its source.
More than 10,000 people have contracted the Ebola virus, with 4,922 deaths, according to the World Health Organization's latest figures.
Only 27 of the cases have occurred outside Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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