I’ve seen blame that 3rd world hospitals cause the healthcare worker infections.
Watch the NOVA on ebola filmed in ‘95.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLuS08A8TQ
They’re using nowhere near the precautions that are being used with this outbreak and yet the MD’s seemed to live through the experience just fine.
And all the other outbreaks in Africa involved 3rd world hospitals as well. Yet none of them spiraled out of control like this.
Cute pic of recovered 22m old little girl.
This is also the most intense outbreak ever. Medical supplies we virtually take for granted in the US would be in short supply over there already, but even more taxed by the number of patients.
Which would likely mean that they are being re-used, perhaps cleaned (perhaps badly) and re-used, and possibly damaged or contaminated in the process.
If they are being sprayed down, there is a possibility droplets with the virus are being distributed inside the PPE before it is re-used.
Can the virus infect transdermally? We don't know, but that might explain how health care workers re-using washed, but still contaminated PPE might become infected--especially if the virus made it to the inside of a glove.
Under the circumstances, and with health care personnel likely overworked, mistakes will be made, accidents will happen, and people will have some lapse in protocol which will cause them to be infected.
This may strain of Ebola may be far worse.