--- title: Ebola: Aid Groups See Fallout From Quarantine Debate description: The fight over quarantines in the U.S. is discouraging doctors, nurses and other health workers from signing up to go to Africa canonical: https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-31T12:52:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:27.492Z article:section: Health og:title: Aid Groups See Fallout Over Quarantine Debate og:description: The fight over quarantines in the U.S. is discouraging doctors, nurses and other health workers from signing up og:url: https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e0e11f531d01719/6987630806f2c1b69b3319b4/ebola-quarantine1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ebola quarantine United States og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Aid Groups See Fallout Over Quarantine Debate twitter:description: The fight over quarantines in the U.S. is discouraging doctors, nurses and other health workers from signing up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e0e11f531d01719/6987630806f2c1b69b3319b4/ebola-quarantine1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Aid Groups See Fallout From Quarantine Debate ## Video: Contact Tracing: How To Trace The Spread of Ebola [Watch (HLS stream): Contact Tracing: How To Trace The Spread of Ebola](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EJ3m56cA.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-10-02. Health officials in the US are using a method known as contact tracing, to see who is at risk from Ebola._ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 31, 2014 12:52 PM UTC  Kaci Hickox, a nurse who arrived in New Jersey on October 24 after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, seen in a hospital quarantine tent in Newark, New Jersey, Oct. 26, 2014. Kaci Hickox, a nurse who arrived in New Jersey on October 24 after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, seen in a hospital quarantine tent in Newark, New Jersey, Oct. 26, 2014.Reuters by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 31, 2014 12:52 PM UTC The fight over Ebola quarantines in the United States is already discouraging doctors, nurses and other health workers from signing up to go to Africa and battle the outbreak where help is needed most. Would-be volunteers are worried about losing three additional weeks of work when they return to the United States, about still-evolving isolation rules and about being holed up in an unfamiliar place, aid organizations say. They also worry about mistreatment generated by the public fear of Ebola, the organizations say. “We have seen a big deterrence,” said Margaret… [Read the rest of the story at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/people-are-worried-aid-groups-see-fallout-quarantine-debate-n237751) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/"},"headline":"Aid Groups See Fallout From Quarantine Debate","datePublished":"2014-10-31T12:52:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:27.492Z","description":"The fight over quarantines in the U.S. is discouraging doctors, nurses and other health workers from signing up to go to Africa","url":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e0e11f531d01719/6987630806f2c1b69b3319b4/ebola-quarantine1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e0e11f531d01719/6987630806f2c1b69b3319b4/ebola-quarantine1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ebola quarantine United States","caption":"Kaci Hickox, a nurse who arrived in New Jersey on October 24 after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, seen in a hospital quarantine tent in Newark, New Jersey, Oct. 26, 2014.","creditText":"Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/","name":"Aid Groups See Fallout From Quarantine Debate"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Contact Tracing: How To Trace The Spread of Ebola","description":"Health officials in the US are using a method known as contact tracing, to see who is at risk from Ebola.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/EJ3m56cA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-02T18:25:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EJ3m56cA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3550843/ebola-quarantine-debate-fallout/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```