<p>A good move? </p>
<p>"SYRACUSE, NY (October 16, 2014) – Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille of The Washington Post, who returned from covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia 21 days ago and who is symptom free, was asked by Syracuse University officials today not to come to campus where he was scheduled to participate in a journalism program..."</p>
<p>^Better safe than sorry</p>
<p>Very bad move. I am embarrassed by my alma mater. Hysteria at it’s finest. IMHO, an institution of higher learning should know better and be an example to the student body and surrounding community of rational thoughts and actions. I’ve already sent an email to the university expressing my feelings about this. Seriously not happy. </p>
<p>Ridiculous. As a Maxwell grad I think I will also send an email to the University. </p>
<p>I wonder what the Falk College faculty think of this decision. </p>
<p>This belongs in the Ebola Hysteria thread. :)</p>
<p>Shaking my head.</p>
<p>I’m shaking mine too. Shame Syracuse. Thought you were more enlightened than that.</p>
<p>I wonder if any med school would taking a similar tack…if a returning medical practitioner would be dis-invited to a campus after the all-clear waiting period. </p>
<p>So by this move I can assume Syracuse is anti-science?</p>
<p>I don’t know about med school, but my School of Public Health just had professors return from West Africa and we had a speaker last week from Liberia. </p>
<p>Our profs have been making numerous youtube videos though explain why people need to keep calm and stop freaking out so, no, I don’t think either us or our med school would cancel over something as stupid as this. </p>
<p>Incubation can be up to 42 days, just saying. </p>
<p>You’re only infectious if you’re showing symptoms (and if you’re showing symptoms, you’re not well enough to work with the students), just saying. </p>
<p>Actually, it’s 95% no chance of infection after 21 days, 98% after 42 days, from everything I’ve read. Also, you’re only infectious if you are showing symptoms, but after the 2nd nurse got ebola with such a low grade fever initially, I can understand somewhat why folks may want to wait 21 days (but have not read much rationale for longer).</p>
<p>As a parent I’d be fine with them waiting 42 days. Maybe that’s because a kid at my son’s highschool was just buried Friday after contracting a relatively rare communicable disease. You think it *can’t * happen, or that it’s highly unlikely, and then it does.</p>
<p>Isn’t this about the level of science one would expect from a school best known for broadcast journalism? Where is the surprise?</p>
<p>Trisharella, that is really sad. Is your son’s school putting people in quarantine? For how long?</p>
<p>Trish, I’m not one who thinks it can’t happen. A woman in my dorm died of meningitis a few years ago. I had h1n1 which killed many.</p>
<p>I refuse to let hysteria run my life though. Healthy precautions are good. Putting life on hold is too much. </p>
<p>They had a company come to clean the school thoroughly. School was off for one day, then everyone went back. The thing about ebola is I’d like to feel they had a handle on it before we decide what appropriate measures are. It’s possible Syracuse is being too cautious. Then again, maybe not. Let’s see how the government handles things in the next month, get a better feel for if this seems to be contained, and then back to business as usual if appropriate. I just don’t blame Syracuse for acting with an abundance of caution right now with so many uncertainties out there. </p>