EBOLA IS IN AMERICA

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Bad PPE practises and improper screening upon admission is the reason being given. Given the number of staff who had contact with that asshole who aren't showing symptoms, I'd have to agree.

I'm sorta incredulous. I understand I shouldn't be given past experience with how things are often managed in our country but c'mon! For healthcare workers not to use even the most basic of precautions really concerns me. If this gets in my state I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be feeling as laid back about it as when the Dr's were allowed in to get treatment. I don't want to panic either but with more cases diagnosed the more I think about it.

I believe the nurses used the correct PPE. I just don't believe they were as careful as they should have been when removing it. When you do something like remove gloves daily 75-80 times a day everyday for years at a time one can become complacent and careless. In addition, the CDC reported that the PPE waste was piled to the ceiling in the hospital so clearly, even though they had precautions in place, they weren't proficient in dealing with the contaminated PPE. This is the kind of thing you're going to run into when you let people come and go freely from areas of high risk exposure. I still don't believe this is an airbourne virus as I originally stated. And I don't feel any more at risk to contracting Ebola from this latest report. I just think it's a very good wake up call to the types of things healthcare deals with on a daily basis. And as username pointed out germ warfare would be a very effective means of attack for obvious reasons.