[Drago]

I am thinking the “tube system” refers to a vacuum transport tube system (like the drive up teller at the bank or the one for cash at Costco)...take a blood sample, seal the vial, label it, put it in a “carrier” and send to the hospital lab for testing.

[steve86]

Yeah, that could be.

[steve86]

At least Ebola virons wouldn’t stay viable for very long in that kind of tube system — would dry out very quickly. The first few canisters you put through it though could possibly end up contaminated.

[Drago]

Link to company that makes hospital pneumatic tube systems:
http://www.swisslog.com/en/Products/HCS/Automated-Material-Transport/Pneumatic-Tube-Systems-for-Hospitals

[Smokin' Joe]

I am thinking the “tube system” refers to a vacuum transport tube system (like the drive up teller at the bank or the one for cash at Costco)...take a blood sample, seal the vial, label it, put it in a “carrier” and send to the hospital lab for testing.

Yikes! Where does the exhaust air go? Is it filtered (on the way out)?