Ebola Panic In The US Reaches New Level With Self-Quarantines, School Absences

It is one thing to quarantine close family members of Thomas Duncan, who died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Texas on Oct. 8, to monitor for signs of the disease. It is another thing for residents of Louisville, Kentucky, a city 800 miles from where Duncan was treated, to confine themselves to their homes over concerns of being exposed to the virus. But such is the state of panic in the U.S. that some people are choosing to sequester themselves to avoid Ebola, which has ravaged the West Afr...