"60 Minutes" host quarantined for Ebola in a South Africa hotel.

**Raider82** · 12-11-2014, 08:24

Is it just me or is the Government and the "60 Minute" crew being irresponsible for allowing them to enter from Liberia after being around the virus.

Especially if they interact among the general populous, even if it is a self imposed quarantine.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...la-quarantine/

Lara Logan of CBS News is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday.

CBS said Monday that Logan's 21-day self-quarantine will end this Friday. Neither Logan nor the four other CBS employees in South Africa have shown any sign that they are infected with the virus.

Logan, speaking in a "60 Minutes Overtime" web interview from the room where the CBS crew put its report together, admitted to some cabin fever as she waits out her stay. She said the South African government had given the crew permission to work at the hotel.

"We wanted to try, as much as possible, to minimize our exposure to anybody while we still had to get our piece done," she said. "We were very mindful of the fact that this 21-day period after you've been in an Ebola-affected country is very important to everyone."

The interview showed Logan and one of her colleagues in a room stuffed with equipment. "We haven't traveled far from the room that you can see," she said.

The "60 Minutes" report detailed her precautions while in Liberia, including being hosed down with a chlorine solution, having her temperature taken frequently and making sure not to touch people. A CBS security worker traveled with the crew with the responsibility of watching everyone's interactions to minimize any chance they could be infected.

A cameraman who was working for NBC News in Liberia contracted the virus but recovered last month. Nancy Snyderman, the NBC News medical correspondent who worked there, was asked to go into voluntary quarantine when she arrived home but that was made mandatory after she was spotted leaving her home. ABC's Richard Besser was not quarantined upon his return from Liberia because the ABC team was judged not to have had exposure to the virus.

Logan briefly teared up when talking about William, a 5-year-old boy featured in her report who was cared for in the hospital by his father but who later died. She said she has a son the same age.

"It's so heartbreaking," she said. "It's really been hard on all of us."

It was Logan's second "60 Minutes" story aired since her return from a forced leave of absence after questions were raised about her role in a disputed story on the deadly 2012 raid at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

**DJ Vier** · 12-11-2014, 08:36

Why not fly back to the states for their quarantine period? oh let me guess - rather wait it out here in another African country than my own.

I do hope the 30 000 odd minutes spent in the hotel room are miserable. (highly unlikely though)

Room service anyone?

**sprinkaan** · 12-11-2014, 08:59

Yeah, agreed, go wait it out in your own country !
How bloody selfish.

**Wild coast** · 12-11-2014, 09:10

proof that imperial powers are trying wipe out us Africans!

**G33** · 12-11-2014, 11:08

didn't someone report that America has a cure ??? i mean that Texan nurse is back home now right. so why not fly her home?

**SaVaGe X** · 12-11-2014, 11:20

Why the F bring them to SA?!
Let them infect their home town.

**SeanG** · 12-11-2014, 11:38

Originally Posted by SaVaGe X

Why the F bring them to SA?!
Let them infect their home town.

Hear hear

**Messor** · 12-11-2014, 11:56

Originally Posted by Wild coast

proof that imperial powers are trying wipe out us Africans!

To be fair to the imperialists it's not their fault africans keep on chewing bats and monkeys and chimps and about every critter found on the continent. But africans are quick to cry for help every time they awake some nasty ancient bug.

The imperialists know that if you want to wipe out africa just leave it alone.

**Wolf777** · 12-11-2014, 12:09

I'd think they would be flown here since we are the most "developed" African nation. We do have the only level 4 bio-safetly laboratory on the continent iirc. We are the best place to go on the continent, why not home to a first world nation is beyond my guessing.

**Wild coast** · 12-11-2014, 12:11

Originally Posted by Messor

To be fair to the imperialists it's not their fault africans keep on chewing bats and monkeys and chimps and about every critter found on the continent. But africans are quick to cry for help every time they awake some nasty ancient bug.

The imperialists know that if you want to wipe out africa just leave it alone.

you got me there, no argument!