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Florida has become the fourth state to require monitoring and potential quarantine of people traveling from Ebola infected nations. As Mike Vasilinda tells us,several travelers are currently being monitored.

The executive order requires anyone who has traveled from an Ebola Impacted nation to have their temperature taken by state health officials twice a day. Travelers who were in contact with an infected person will be quarantined for 21 days.

The Governor’s office says there are currently Four people in Florida  who have traveled from Ebola Infected nations.

At the Department of Health, no one was talking about the order. We began asking for interviews at 7:30 Monday morning. A confirmation email was sent at 9:17.  The Surgeon General’s parking place was occupied at the Department but we were told he would not be available.

At 1:17 DOH said no one would be talking about the order but referenced the Governor speaking out it on campaign stops across the state. A 1:42 email from the agency called the four being monitored “low risk”. One of the questions we couldn’t ask is where those patients are located.

Late this  afternoon, the Department of Health increased the number of people being monitored from four to six and told us information about the location of  those individuals is not available.