Two doctoral students from Yale who have been in West Africa will sequester themselves for three weeks immediately after returning to the United States this weekend, according to the Yale Daily News.
The students from the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases doctoral program have been in Liberia, where there is an Ebola outbreak, according to the Daily News.
They have been helping to set up a computer system for the Liberian Ministry of Health to monitor the Ebola outbreak and “track contact tracing,” the paper reports, citing the email from the dean of the Yale School of Public Health.
The article says the graduate student researchers left for the country on Sept. 16, had no direct contact with Ebola patients and are not exhibiting any symptoms of the deadly disease.
The two students will return on Saturday after helping to set up a computer system for the Liberian Ministry of Health to monitor the Ebola outbreak and “track contact tracing,” the paper reports, citing the email.
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The Ebola outbreak has been going on since March 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is urging United States residents to avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
