08-05-2014, 11:16 AM
The two Americans who contracted the disease, along with the other health care workers who contracted it, were not in an environment that allowed them to take all of the necessary/recommended precautions.
Linked below is a good piece where Dr. Nahid Bhadelia explains it. She is the director of infection control at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory in Boston and a hospital epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center. She’s slated to travel to Sierra Leone in mid-August, to share her expertise on infection control and also care directly for Ebola patients.
LINK
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/08/ebo...ton-doctor
Linked below is a good piece where Dr. Nahid Bhadelia explains it. She is the director of infection control at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory in Boston and a hospital epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center. She’s slated to travel to Sierra Leone in mid-August, to share her expertise on infection control and also care directly for Ebola patients.
LINK
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/08/ebo...ton-doctor