An American nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has said she was interrogated and held in isolation for about seven hours and felt treated like a criminal by the police and airport authorities at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. She was eventually escorted to hospital by eight police cars and forced to have an Ebola test which later returned a negative result. Three states,New York,New Jersey and Illinois have imposed a mandatory 21 days isolation period for all residents returning from the Ebola affected countries in West Africa if they had direct contact with Ebola patients even if they show no symptoms of infection. Well folks,there you have it.The stigmatization associated with Ebola is not only limited to West Africans or African in general.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:51:19 +0000
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