AP reported Friday & Saturday that the State of New Jersey Department of Health has now issued a mandatory quarantine order for NBC News correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman and the other members of a NBC news crew exposed to a case of Ebola -- one of its cameramen, Ashoka Mukpo, while they worked together in Liberia.
Mukpo is now being treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The medical director there Saturday stated the patient's condition has improved.
The rest of the NBC crew returned to the USA by jet and, according to reports, had agreed to voluntary quarantine through 21 Oct. However, the planetprinceton.com website posted reports of Dr. Snyderman being seen in public at Hopewell Boro between 8 & 9 Oct.
"Unfortunately, the NBC crew violated this agreement and so the Department of Health today issued a mandatory quarantine order to ensure that the crew will remain confined until Oct. 22," the spokeswoman for the New Jersey Health Department told the Associated Press.
| Left unstated was whether the sighting of Dr. Snyderman was the event that was considered a "violation" of the agreement. |
NBC told the Associated Press today that the network could not comment on any individual case, but said the team was deemed to be low-risk upon its return from Liberia and its members agreed to follow guidelines set by local health authorities.
"We fully support those guidelines and continue to expect that they be followed," the representative said. "Our team are all well with normal temperatures, which they check multiple times a day, and they are also in daily contact with local health officials." |