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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Saturday said he’d be willing to quarantine Americans returning home from the summer Olympics in Brazil, where the Zika virus has been rampant, to prevent its spread in the US.

“You bet I would,” Christie said in response to a question about quarantines during the final GOP debate before the New Hampshire primary.

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But one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Dr. Ben Carson, disagreed.

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