Obama: Ebola Quarantines Must Be Based on Science

U.S. President Barack Obama says the decision to quarantine health workers who had direct contact with Ebola patients should be based on science, nor fear. The White House was commenting on the case of a nurse in Maine,  who is defying a mandatory 21-day quarantine after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Kaci Hickox says she has no symptoms, has tested negative for Ebola, and says the quarantine violates her civil rights. She refused to comply with the state's order by...

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