BREAKING: CT Governor Declares State of Emergency Due to Ebola
By Reagan Wilson on October 7, 2014
http://controversialtimes.com/wp-con...4/10/malls.jpg
UPDATE: This post is getting a ton of traffic from Facebook over the last 48 hours. If you could please leave a comment with what page or group shared it, that would be most appreciated.
The state of Connecticut has become the first to declare a state of public health emergency over the possibility of an ebola virus outbreak in the United States.
According to NBC CT,He signed an order declaring the emergency on Tuesday, giving the Commissioner of the state Department of Public Health the authority to quarantine and isolate people whom the commissioner “reasonably believes has been exposed to the Ebola virus.”
Malloy said this is not in response to any specific case, but is meant to provide state health officials with the authority necessary to “prevent any potential transmission of the Ebola virus within the State of Connecticut.”
“We are taking this action today to ensure that we are prepared, in advance, to deal with any identified cases in which someone has been exposed to the virus or, worst case, infected,” Malloy said in a statement.
“Our state’s hospitals have been preparing for it, and public health officials from the state are working around the clock to monitor the situation. Right now, we have no reason to think that anyone in the state is infected or at risk of infection. But it is essential to be prepared and we need to have the authorities in place that will allow us to move quickly to protect public health, if and when that becomes necessary. Signing this order will allow us to do that.”
Declaring a state of emergency can give state governments different powers than they normally have and these provisions vary from state to state.
Ebola was first identified in the United States in Dallas, Texas when a citizen of Liberia was hospitalized with the disease. Since then, several other possible cases are being evaluated in other parts of the country and hundreds of people who may have had contact with the Dallas patient are being watched by officials for signs of the virus.
http://controversialtimes.com/news/b...-due-to-ebola/