. . MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS : COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES : LAW: CASES: White House Questions New Ebola Rules, Nurse Plans to Sue . . White House Questions New Ebola Rules, Nurse Plans to Sue By Joseph Ax and Douwe Miedema NEW YORK / WASHINGTON Sunday October 26, 2014 7:17pm EDT Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/26/ us-health-ebola-usa-idUSKBN0IF03L20141026
. The complete article may be read at the URL above. . http://tinyurl.com/jwqbj5a . .(Reuters) - The White House has told states that have imposed mandatory quarantines for some travelers from Ebola-hit West Africa that the policy could impede the fight against the disease, while the first health worker isolated under the rules plans to sue.
.Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed in 21-day quarantine in a New Jersey hospital after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, will contest her quarantine in court, her attorney said on Sunday, arguing the order violates her constitutional rights.
.New Jersey and New York are imposing quarantines on anyone arriving with a high risk of having contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where the epidemic has killed nearly 5,000 people. Illinois and Florida said they were taking similar steps.
.The White House voiced its concern to the governors of New York and New Jersey about the potential impact of quarantine orders, a senior administration official said on Sunday.
."We have let the governors of New York, New Jersey, and other states know that we have concerns with the unintended consequences of policies not grounded in science may have on efforts to combat Ebola at its source in West Africa," the Obama administration official said in a statement.
.Medical professionals note that Ebola is extremely difficult to catch. It is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person and is not transmitted by people who are not showing symptoms.
.Confinement of the nurse at a Newark, New Jersey hospital raises constitutional and civil liberties issues, given that she remains asymptomatic and has not tested positive for Ebola, said her attorney Norman Siegel, a prominent civil liberties lawyer.
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