Ebola quarantine - updates

Rappler's latest stories on Ebola quarantine

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N. Korea orders Ebola quarantine on all foreigners

Oct 30, 2014 - 11:55 PM

Travelers to North Korea from regions or countries that Pyongyang considers affected by the Ebola virus will be quarantined for 21 days in a government appointed hotel under medical supervision

US nurse bikes away, despite Ebola quarantine

Oct 30, 2014 - 9:50 PM

Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend rode their bicycles away from their house in the northeastern state of Maine as a gaggle of media looked on and cameras rolled

STIGMA. UN chief Ban Ki-Moon says health workers helping to fight Ebola in West Africa should be supported, not stigmatized through mandatory quarantine policies. File photo by Zoom Dosso/AFP

US modifies Ebola guidelines after quarantine uproar

Oct 28, 2014 - 10:30 AM

The decision comes after UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and health workers coming from Ebola hit areas strongly criticized the US quarantine guidelines

UPROAR. Charles King (L), Chief Executive Officer of Housing Works, and Peter Staley (R), American HIV/AIDS-LGBT rights activist, denounce the region's new quarantine rules outside the Bellevue Hospital Center where patients with, or are suspected of having, Ebola are being treated in New York, 27 October 2014. Justin Lane/EPA

US nurse leaves quarantine, child negative for Ebola

Oct 28, 2014 - 9:45 AM

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announces the release of the nurse a day after New York eased strict new quarantine orders under pressure from the Obama administration

EBOLA PRIMER. Two boys look at an Ebola information card after a 5-year-old boy with Ebola-like symptoms who lived near was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center in Bronx, New York, USA, 27 October 2014. He has since been cleared. Andrew Gombert/E

UN: Ebola quarantine stigmatizes health workers

Oct 28, 2014 - 4:35 AM

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says health workers returning from West Africa are exceptional and should be treated with respect

'EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE.' UN chief Ban Ki-Moon says health workers helping to fight Ebola in West Africa should be supported, not stigmatized through mandatory quarantine policies. File photo by Zoom Dosso/AFP

Quarantined for helping Ebola patients, US nurse slams rules

Oct 26, 2014 - 9:34 AM

No one seemed to be in charge No one would tell me what was going on or what would happen to me nurse Kaci Hickox says

PREPARED. Workers are seen carrying plastic barrels from the apartment building where Ebola patient Craig Spencer lived in Harlem, New York, USA, 24 October 2014. Photo by John Taggart/EPA

PH preps for return of Filipinos from Ebola-hit nations

Oct 14, 2014 - 4:16 PM

The government is preparing quarantine facilities for Filipinos in Ebola struck countries who choose to return to the Philippines

A photograph made available on 10 October 2014 shows a Liberian burial squad carry the body of an Ebola victim in Marshall, Margini county, Liberia, 25 September 2014. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA