Unreasonable fear of the virus is now costing people their jobs.
Susan Sherman, a teacher at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School in Louisville, Ky., has resigned after being asked to take a 21-day leave of absence following a missionary trip to Kenya. Parents were worried, so they thought it would be better if she wasn’t at the school.
But Kenya is in Eastern Africa and has had no reports of Ebola.
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Sherman (also a registered nurse) and her husband Paul, a retired orthopedic surgeon, were on a medical mission trip to Kenya in a small village called Migori. It was the fourth trip that she and her husband had taken with faith-based organization Kenya Relief.
Last week, Paul Sherman sent a letter to Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, complaining that “unfounded fears” of some parents and parish staff “are triumphing over truth and reason.” He said he and his wife offered to give an educational meeting about Ebola and about their medical mission trip, but they “were put off until our ‘quarantine’ is over.”
Apparently the backlash the couple received was enough for Sherman to walk away from her teaching position because Cecilia Hart Price, chief communications officer for the Archdiocese of Louisville, has confirmed that they are already in the process of filling her position.
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