Health Watch | Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Paul Biddinger, Associate Director of the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness, tells Reuters that fear is driving certain non-science based policies like the involuntary quarantine of health workers.

Harvard Professor Barry Bloom tells Reuters that temperature screenings put in place for Ebola were not effective for prior outbreaks like SARS and should be boosted.

Harvard University scientist Stephen Gire, who studies the genetic makeup of Ebola, says mutation could allow it to benefit from a ''strategy'' used by other viruses to increase human infection.