Question: Short Answers 1) Shelly Is A Nurse At A Large City Hospital. She Treats A Man Who Has Returned From Africa And Exhibits Signs Of Illness Consistent With Infection Of The Ebola Virus. She Takes All The Precautions That She Has Been Taught To Use Around Patients That May Be Infected With Ebola. Tests Come Back Showing That, In Fact, Her Patient Is Positive …

Short Answers 1) Shelly is a nurse at a large city hospital. She treats a man who has returned from Africa and exhibits signs of illness consistent with infection of the Ebola virus. She takes all the precautions that she has been taught to use around patients that may be infected with Ebola. Tests come back showing that, in fact, her patient is positive for Ebola. She continues to treat him, taking all of the same precautions. 1 Shelly monitors her own health for signs of the disease. She knows that she is not contagious for the deadly virus unless she has active symptoms, such as a fever. She wakes up one morning while out of town with a slight fever, still under 100 degrees. She contacts the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to see if she can still travel, and they advise her that she can because her fever is not over 100 degrees. Shelly takes a flight home. She becomes sicker after arriving home, and tests show she has contracted the Ebola virus. All passengers on her flight are contacted. One person subsequently comes down with the virus. While Shelly makes a full recovery, the airline passenger does not and quickly dies from the disease. Shelly is arrested for the death of the passenger. You are the prosecutor in the case. Under your state’s statutes, you can file charges of manslaughter, which require reckless indifference to human life in causing someone’s death, or you can file charges of criminally negligent homicide, which require criminal negligence. What do you decide to do?