“It will help.”
No it will hurt. And 000646 explained why:
“Sending qualified medical proffesionals to the affected areas to deal with the disease and help educate the public on how to avoid infection as well as to help treat the disease does help get it under control.”
This is 100% correct. The way to stop Ebola is to stop it in Africa. And that requires people from other countries to go there and the last thing we should be doing is discouraging medical personnel from doing that.
If you want to quarantine someplace it would make more sense to quarantine all of Texas and all of New York City, because those places have had Ebola cases and do not need outside medical help. Of course, you would destroy the economy in the process.
Thousands of Americans die every year from influenza. It is MUCH more contagious than Ebola and yet there is no outcry, no call for quarantine, no call even for mandatory vaccinations. THAT is a disease that we should really be worrying about.