Recently, to the chagrin of the CDC, Governors Cuomo and Christie instituted mandatory quarantine procedures at John F Kennedy and Newark Liberty International Airports. Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of health for New York State, explained that: Any individual while in one of the three West African nations who had direct contact with  infected people or people who could have been infected with the Ebola virus and including any medical personnel having performed medical services to infected patients will be automatically quarantined. The CDC is not happy about this decision because, according to a Federal official: “They're very worried we won't be able to get physicians or nurses to go (to countries affected by the Ebola outbreak)." A problem with this argument is that medical personnel who go to these countries already know they risk contracting Ebola. If that doesn’t dissuade them, it is unlikely that a mandatory 3-week quarantine period...(Read Full Post)