Nurse Who Treated Ebola Patients Agrees to Self-Quarantine in Texas

KUT 90.5 - Texas Tech University law professor Jennifer Bard, an expert on quarantine law, says the state statute doesn't specify how serious the risk of exposure needs to be to enforce a mandatory quarantine.

An unidentified nurse has returned to Texas from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. She arrived at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport this morning.

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Texas Tech University law professor Jennifer Bard, an expert on quarantine law, says the state statute doesn't specify how serious the risk of exposure needs to be to enforce a mandatory quarantine.

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