Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Is About Politics, Not Public Health
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 23:40
in Health & Medicine
The risk to the Australian community from doctors and nurses returning from Ebola-affected countries is minimal. Credit: EPA/ARIE KIEVITBy Grant Hill-Cawthorne, University of Sydney and Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of SydneyGovernments have a duty to protect their citizens but the plan to impose mandatory detention on health-care workers being suggested by some Australian states is excessive and unwarranted. read more