Yale administrators will limit travel to and quarantine individuals returning from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, because of the Ebola virus outbreaks in those countries.
Provost Ben Polak and Yale Health Director Paul Genecin sent an e‑mail to the Yale community Tuesday linking to the university’s updated “policy on travel to Ebola-affected countries,” which asks students not to travel there unless qualified and planning to help contain the outbreak. The policy mirrors a level 3 travel warning from the Centers for Disease Control discouraging “nonessential travel” to these three West African countries.
The policy prevents undergraduate students from receiving credit or funding for travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Graduate and professional students must “provide evidence that they have special expertise” to help contain the epidemic in order to go. They are also required to work in connection with a relevant aid or international organization, and receive approval from their school and the university provost.
After a Yale public health doctoral student was tested for Ebola after returning from a university-related trip to Liberia last Thursday, Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced a mandatory 21-day quarantine for all travelers returning to Connecticut from level 3 countries.
