Nações em pré-pânico pelo Ebola, vírus produzido em laboratório e patenteado pelo governo dos EUA.
The diagnoses of New York City health worker Dr. Craig Spencer with Ebola has sent the east coast states into a panic, with the governors of New York and New Jersey mandating a forced quarantine for all returning volunteers effective October 24th. Although the US had earlier rerouted all passengers from West Africa to one of five airport processing centers, infected Spencer still got through because he wasn't displaying symptoms at the time of his arrival. The rest of the connected world is quickly becoming a closed world, as other scared nations actually close their borders to West African states at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak. Sierra Leone and Liberia were the first to do so as the Guina-originated virus began to take hold over the summer, but their actions set the model for Senegal, North Korea, and even Australia. Whereas North Korea has taken the extreme route of closing its border to all travelers, Australia has been more moderate by temporarily halting migration from West Africa.
Slowly but surely, the US seems to be creeping towards more restrictive measures to prevent a full-scale Ebola outbreak. Questions could arise over the constitutionality of forced quarantines, as well as whether or not, and to what degree, that states can even carry them out. As nations one-by-one begin enacting semi-border closures to safeguard against Ebola, it seems to be only a matter of time before the US is next.
