ASPEN — Aspen resident Frank Peters plans to stick close to home for the next few weeks.
Peters, 66, returned to Aspen on Wednesday from Liberia, where he helped staff a logistics team for Doctors Without Borders, which is stationed there to help curb the Ebola virus and the people it has infected.
“I’ve been at home since I got back, and I’m going to stick pretty close to home, but not because I’m afraid of anything,” Peters said in a telephone interview Friday.
Peters, an Aspen City Council member from 1989 to 1993, said he hasn’t shown any symptoms of Ebola, a statement supported by Liz Stark, Pitkin County’s public health director. Stark has spoken to Peters, who also met Thursday night with Dr. Kimberly Levin, the county’s medical officer.
Peters checks his temperature morning and night. County health officials will speak to him daily about his condition until the 21-day incubation period passes from his last day in Liberia, which was Oct. 25.
During his time stationed in Liberia, Peters said, there were numerous protocols in place.
Doctors Without Borders workers washed their hands and sprayed their feet with chlorine solutions as well. The organization has a zero-tolerance policy for those who don’t comply with the rules.
