Did you see the gowns, masks and gloves? Safety glasses? It is simply unfathomable to me that so many many healthcare workers are getting this strain - and dying of it as well.
This ebola has to be 100% pathogenic on any first contact and deadly as can be from the tiniest particle imaginable.
Then figure in the guy on the plane vomiting and having diarrhea - most people touch the counter in the plane bathroom while there - and all those next to him, or flight attendants. All released to go on to more international flights to hand out food and drinks and hand back credit cards to more international passengers, perhaps infectious but not openly sick yet.
Add in the famous toothpick studies from restaurants where they are loaded with fecal matter - almost no one washes their hands well enough.
Then you have the patients showing up in ERs with vomiting and diarrhea, ho hum, see them all the time, last thing anyone is going to consider is ebola - it is way too zebra. So all of those staff, like me, treating the patient and drawing blood and handling the stool.
I mean this could not be worse - you couldn't come up with a disaster movie any better than this.
I’ll try to find the article from the Nigerian paper that said not only were they not sure the number of potential contact they needed to look for, but that the contact they HAD contacted were on the run!
http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/ebola-victims-death-fg-lagos-launch-manhunt-co-passengers/
That entire airplane is a biohazard. Totally. Should have been burned.
The cleaning crew is contaminated now unless they were level 4 protected.
As are any subsequent passengers on any further flights.
And the flight staff as well.
And all of their famlies.