Ebola panic: 80 percent of Americans want quarantines
Oct-30-2014

In another sign panic over Ebola is peaking, an overwhelming majority of Americans believe travelers returning to the United States from West Africa should be quarantined until it is determined they are Ebola-free, a new CBS News poll finds.

According to the poll, conducted Oct. 23-27, 80 percent of Americans support mandatory quarantines for U.S. citizens and legal residents arriving from West Africa. Just 17 percent said they believe those without symptoms should be allowed to move freely.

And 27 percent of Americans believe West Africans should be banned from traveling to the United States until the Ebola epidemic is contained.

There have been more than 10,000 reported cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone since March, according to the World Health Organization, and 4,912 deaths associated with the virus.

The poll comes amid a debate between federal and state officials over how to deal with health workers returning to the United States from the Ebola-ravaged region.

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