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ByMarilynnMarchione The Associated Press NEW YORK The governors of New Jersey and New York said Friday they are ordering a mandatory, 21- day quarantine for all doc- tors and other travelers who have had contact with Eb- ola victims in West Africa. The move came after a New York City doctor who returned to the U.S. a week ago from treating Ebola vic- tims in Guinea was diag- nosedwiththelethaldisease. Many New Yorkers and others were dismayed to learn that in the week be- fore he was hospitalized, Dr. Craig Spencer rode the sub- way, took a cab, went bowl- ing, visited a coffee shop and ate at a restaurant. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the case forced them to con- clude that the two states need guidelines more rig- orous than those of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which rec- ommends voluntary quar- antines. "It's too serious a situa- tion to leave it to the honor system of compliance," Cuomo said. Spencer's illness led law- makers on Capitol Hill, sci- entists and ordinary New Yorkers to wonder why he was out on the town after his return from West Africa — and why stronger steps weren't being taken to quar- antine medical workers. Health officials said he followed U.S. and interna- tional protocols in check- ing his temperature ev- ery day and watching for symptoms, and put no one at risk. But others said he should have been quaran- tined — that is, kept away from others, either volun- tarily or by the government — during Ebola's 21-day in- cubation period. An automatic three-week quarantine makes sense for anyone "with a clear expo- sure" to Ebola, said Dr. Richard Wenzel, a Virginia Commonwealth University scientist who formerly led the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Doctors Without Bor- ders, the group Spencer was working for, said in a state- ment that that would be go- ing too far. People with Eb- ola aren't contagious until symptoms begin, and even then it requires close con- tact with body fluids. "As long as a returned staff member does not ex- perience any symptoms, normal life can proceed," the organization said in a statement. Aid organizations also warned that many health care volunteers wouldn't go to Ebola hot zones if they knew they would be con- fined totheirhomes forthree weeks after they got back. On the streets of New York, Michael Anderson was critical of the U.S. gov- ernment and Spencer. "He's stupid, a complete idiot" for moving about in public, the longtime Man- hattan resident said at Grand Central Station. "It's his responsibility when you come back from Africa" not to put people at risk, he said. In other developments: • One of the two Dallas nurses who caught Ebola from a patient was declared virus-free and released from a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Nina Pham, 26, said she felt "fortunate and blessed to be standing here today." She later met with President Barack Obama at the White House. The other nurse, Amber Vinson, is in an Atlanta hospital, where she was said to "making good progress." • Millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015, and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March, the World Health Organiza- tion said. • In Mali, which reported its first case this week, au- thorities warned that many people are in danger be- cause the toddler who brought the disease to the country was bleeding from her nose as she traveled on a bus from Guinea. Nearly 4,900 people have died in the Ebola outbreak, most of them in Guinea, Li- beria and Sierra Leone. Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, re- turned from Guinea on Oct. 17 and sought treatment Thursday after suffering di- arrhea and a 100.3-degree fever. He was listed in stable condition at a special isola- tion unit at Bellevue Hospi- tal Center, and a decontam- ination company was sent to his Harlem home. His fi- ancee, who was not show- ing symptoms, was being watched in a quarantine ward at Bellevue. DISEASE NY a nd N J to r eq ui re Ebola quarantines RICHARDDREW—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Mott Hall High School student Brian Binion, right, and fellow students read flyers about Ebola risk, near the apartment building of Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer in New York on Friday. By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON Sixty-five percent of Americans now say the threat from the Is- lamic State group is very or even extremely important, and nearly half think the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Most want to see America's partners step up their con- tribution to the fight. Less than half, 43 per- cent, approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling the danger posed by the extremist militants. Greg Franke, 24, of Co- lumbia, South Carolina, was among the 55 percent of those who disapproved. Franke, a 24-year-old as- sistant editor at a research library, said he thought Obama was too hesitant in responding to the mili- tants, who have employed brutal tactics to swiftly seize territory. "I understand the need to be hesitant, but this was a group that was march- ing across parts of the Middle East, which is al- ready unstable," Franke said. "I think it warranted a swift and more decisive response." A majority, 66 percent, favor the airstrikes the United States has been launching against the mil- itants, yet 65 percent of those surveyed say Obama has not clearly explained America's goal in fighting the Islamic State group. The president met with his na- tional security team on Fri- day to discuss the Islamic State and talk via video teleconference with U.S. of- ficials at the American Em- bassy in Baghdad and con- sulates in Irbil and Basra. Here's a look at the poll: Isenoughbeingdone? Forty-six percent said the U.S. military response has not gone far enough — up from 40 percent in September. Fifty-six per- cent said the military re- sponse from countries that have joined the U.S. in the fight against Islamic State militants has not gone far enough. The U.S. and part- ner countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have been bombing Islamic State targets since August. At the same time, she thinks the United States eventually will put troops on the ground in the re- gion "just to make sure nothing starts back up — to keep the peace." Only 32 percent think Obama has done a good job in clearly stating U.S. policy against the IS group. More than six in 10 of them think it's either not likely or only moderately likely that the U.S. and its part- ners will achieve their goal in fighting IS. Following events While 47 percent of those surveyed said there's a very or extremely high risk of another terror at- tack inside the United States, just a third said they have been keenly fol- lowing the news about the U.S. military action against IS. An additional 38 percent said they were following the action some- what closely, and 31 per- cent said they were keep- ing up not too closely or not closely at all. Are strikes popular? While Americans sup- port the airstrike, when it comes to supporting the idea of deploying U.S. ground troops, respon- dents were more guarded. Thirty-seven percent said they opposed put- ting American forces on the ground, 33 percent fa- vored the idea and 28 per- cent said they were neither for nor against it. Obama has said repeat- edly that he has no plans to send ground troops to Iraq or Syria. 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