United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Oct. 29 approved a mandatory 21-day quarantine for United States military personnel serving in Ebola stricken areas of West Africa.
The U.S. has 1,000 troops in the region, and the force could grow to as many as 4,000 in coming months, according to a CNN report.
The U.S. military’s policy shift came one month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave a worst-case estimate that as many as 1.4 million people in Sierra Leone and Liberia could be infected with Ebola by January.
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