[palmer]

Two notes: processing blood samples from dying Ebola patients is extremely hazardous. That was evidently this person's job. Either they have to wear full pressurized protection or do all the work inside an isolation box. I suspect he had neither.

Second, this is not norovirus, the cruise ship virus, so I would not consider his infection to be a hazard to anyone except people who had close contact with him and even in that case a small chance if he is not acute and they take reasonable precautions.

[Paladin2]

"his"?

How connected to reality are you?

[greeneyes]

Assuming that the sample was taken the day of admittance, today would be the 15th day. Many show symptoms from the 8th to 10th day.

I’m betting there are symptoms, there is no reason to have been trying to helicopter her off, and send a copter to take a blood sample unless there’s symptoms that I can think of.

Full hazmat gear with there own air supply, and decontamination afterward is what happens at research labs. I am 99.9% sure that the hospital lab didn’t have that.