Hi Christine, I asked our Director of Student Health Services for input and below are her comments:
The CDC still has level 3 alerts advising travelers to avoid non-essential travel to Sierra Leone and Guinea due to Ebola. The number of cases has declined dramatically in recent weeks. There is still active airport screening for the 5 major US airports where travelers from Sierra Leone and Guinea enter the country, this includes Dulles International Airport. Arrivals from these 2 countries complete temperature screening and a questionnaire. If no fever and no symptoms of Ebola, they are able to travel to their final destination but are monitored by Virginia Department of Health for 21 days but they are not quarantined. If they have a fever on arrival and/or are ill with symptoms of ebola, they would be isolated/hospitalized. Arrivals from Liberia are no longer subject to this screening since Liberia is now considered free of ebola. See: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/ebola/ Individuals who travel to these countries as humanitarian aid workers will go through these same screening processes. The CDC may change this guidance when there are no cases of Ebola in these 2 countries for 42 days. Donna W. Meeks Old Dominion University University Policy Manager and Executive Secretary to the Board of Visitors 2010E Koch Hall Norfolk, VA 23529 757-683-3072 / FAX 757-683-5679 [email protected] http://www.odu.edu/bov<http://www.odu.edu/content/odu/about/bov.html> http://www.odu.edu/policy/university [cid:[email protected]] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Tata Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [acupa-l] Quarantine after foreign travel? Hello, everyone. We are working on our foreign travel policy to cover those who want to go to restricted countries for various reasons (to provide healthcare, etc.). Do any of you with health care facilities require a health screening or possible quarantine when someone returns from a country with a known contagious disease outbreak, whether restricted or not? Thanks if anyone has an example. Christine * * * Christine Tata, Ph.D. Director of Policy Administration UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard B2.100 / Mail Code 9002 Dallas, Texas 75390-9002 214-648-2866 ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. Replying to Messages: Replying (using Reply) to an ACUPA-L e-mail will distribute your message to the ENTIRE list of members. To send a message privately, reply directly to the individual who sent the message (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). To Unsubscribe: Go to http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html and complete the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours, during normal business hours. Questions about the ACUPA e-list? Contact Jamie Parris at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ACUPA%20e-list%20assistance> or 607-255-6837. ________________________________ NOTE: This message was trained as non-spam. If this is wrong, please correct the training as soon as possible. Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=01PmB28yP&m=9a40f99148e0&t=20150928&c=s> Not spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=01PmB28yP&m=9a40f99148e0&t=20150928&c=n> Forget previous vote<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=01PmB28yP&m=9a40f99148e0&t=20150928&c=f>
