Ebola: Quarantine can Undermine Efforts to Curb Epidemic

Author(s)
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Publication language
English
Pages
3pp
Date published
27 Oct 2014
Publisher
MSF
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Link
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/ebola-quarantine-can-undermine-effo…

October 27, 2014
NEW YORK—Forced quarantine of asymptomatic health workers returning from fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not grounded on scientific evidence and could undermine efforts to curb the epidemic at its source, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.