Four States Quarantine, Series Tied
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Vol. 3, No. 299
Outbreak: Four states are now requiring 21-day quarantines for travelers returning from dealing with Ebola-affected countries. Florida has joined New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Volunteer aid workers say the quarantine will only add a three-week time commitment and may discourage others from going to Africa to help.
A nurse placed under quarantine at Newark International airport after arriving from working with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa is lashing out at authorities for putting her in quarantine. In an essay published in the Dallas Morning News, Kaci Hickox described being misdiagnosed with a fever, gruffly interrogated, and rushed to a hospital with a police escort. She wrote, “I sat alone in the isolation tent and thought of many colleagues who will return home to America and face the same ordeal. Will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?” Hickox wrote, “I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine.”
World: Ukrainians are voting to elect a new parliament in elections called by President Petro Poroshenko in hopes of cleaning out the corruption of the old regime and getting the country on its feet. About three million people in the embattled Donetsk and Luhansk regions will not be allowed to vote, and neither will the 1.8 million who live in Crimea.
> The last US and British combat outposts have been handed over to the Afghan military, officially ending operations for both countries in Afghanistan. The US lost 2,349 people killed, and the British, 453 since 2011.
Got A Euro?: Twenty-five European banks have failed a stress test, meaning they don’t have enough money on hand to survive a financial crisis. Collectively they are $31.7 billion short of what they need, according to the European Central Bank. This is considered to be a small number of troubled banks, so the report theoretically should create confidence in the European banking system.
Nation: The shooter in a Washington State high school this week was targeting his cousins. Two of the four wounded students are cousins of freshman Jaylen Fryberg, who killed himself at the end of the incident. Two girls and two boys remain in intensive care, some of them with head wounds.
The Obit Page: Jack Bruce, the bassist and lead vocalist for the rock group Cream in the 1960s, has died at home in England at age 71. With guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker, Bruce was part of one of the great trios in rock history. He wrote “Sunshine of Your Love,” “I Feel Free” and “White Room.”
>Terry Keenan, a familiar face who reported on business for CNN and Fox News, has died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 53. She left television in 2009 to raise her son with husband Ron Kass, but was still writing a business column for The New York Post.
The Series: San Francisco was in trouble last night, trailing 4-1, then turned around and shellacked Kansas City 11-4. The Royals burned through five pitchers trying to stop the rout. The series is tied 2-2 and game five is today in San Francisco.
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