{"id":732,"date":"2014-10-28T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-10-28T06:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:25:36","slug":"u-s-isolates-troops-australia-slaps-visa-ban-on-ebola-hit-west-africa-states-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/28\/us-health-ebola-idUSKBN0IH08T20141028\">U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">(Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The latest measures, along with decisions by some U.S. states to impose mandatory quarantines on health workers returning home from treating Ebola victims in West Africa, have been condemned by health authorities and the United Nations as extreme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The top health official in charge of dealing with Washington&#8217;s response to Ebola warned against turning doctors and nurses who travel to West Africa to tackle Ebola into &#8220;pariahs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 5,000 people since March, the vast majority in West Africa, but nine Ebola cases in the United States have caused alarm, and states such as New York and New Jersey have ignored federal advice by introducing their own strict controls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states | Reuters. (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,232,822,834,844],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-un","tag-us","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}