If you look closely at the images, many of those who seem to have complete PPE actually have exposed patches of skin. Look around the goggles and surgical masks and around the feet. I have seen bare foreheads, necks, and ankles.
Laboratory workers who research Ebola wear space suits with air supplied through hoses.
The last time I saw that much PPE was during the dioxin clean up work in Times Beach, Missouri.
That's funny. They probably wore all of that because they were kicking up lots of dust. When I researched dioxin as a graduate student, I wore only a lab coat and gloves when I handled dioxin.
Once, a student dropped a plate of dioxin-treated cells on the floor. As per university regulation, our lab manager called the campus EHS office and was told, "You are the experts on dioxin. You clean it up!" (Um... okay.)
