21 Day Ebola Quarantine - The period of incubation is supposedly 21 days, as the CDC is taking into consideration. But a new study shows that this number of days might not particularly be the right one.
On Oct. 14, a new study was published in PLOS, written by Charles N. Haas and a research is conducted to prove if the 21 days of isolation that many people are employing is indeed the correct number.
With Ebola, things have been spiraling out of control, basically. In Ohio and Texas, schools have been shutting down to prevent children being exposed or in contact with other students that could have fled in airplanes with someone infected.
"And two children who were on the same Frontier flight have been asked to stay home from school for 21 days and monitor their temperatures," The Washington Post has noted.
A second nurse, Amber Joy Vinson who was in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan, was diagnosed with Ebola virus and she was on commercial flights from Dallas to Cleveland and then back to Dallas once again.
Once she got back, she was diagnosed with Ebola and put in quarantine. After that, the people who traveled with her in the flights got scared and so, they started taking precautions like the one of the children who flew with her.
The schools took that into consideration and closed the schools. But the question is, with so many people taking so many extraordinary precautions, are the 21 days in isolation a wise decision?
"From 0.1 to 12% of the time, an individual case will have a greater incubation time than 21 days," was one of the conclusions and perhaps the most alarming one that Haas reached in the study.
To analyze the 21 day Ebola quarantine, Haas takes into consideration the Ebola outbreaks in Zaire (1976) and Uganda (2000). Also, the first nine months of this current outbreak, the Huffington Post noted.
