In the U.S., meanwhile, nurses Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson both contracted Ebola treating Liberian victim Thomas Eric Duncan, despite constant reassurances by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention in Atlanta, that the CDC understood the disease and had adequate protocols in place to contain it. Now, nurse Kaci Hickox, released Monday from hospital quarantine after protesting her civil rights had been violated, has prompted a rebuke New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by the Obama administration for suggesting a mandatory quarantine could be placed on health care workers returning from West Africa after treating Ebola victims. Hickox...
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