Taking care of Ebola is not “a fundamental of
infection control”. It is Level IV.
In the past decade, 5 cases of hemorrhagic fever have been imported into the US--one case of Marburg and 4 cases of Lassa. These are all considered level 4 agents, all are quarantinable by executive order, and all of those cases were managed through the normal infectious disease protocols that exist at every hospital. Not a single one of those led to a secondary infection of health care workers.
The Marburg case is especially interesting. Marburg is sister to Ebola, being from the same virus family and causing nearly identical disease with a high death rate. The patient was hospitalized in Jan, 2008, and had a surgical intervention while in the hospital. For continuing weakness, she received a blood transfusion after being released from the hospital. She was not diagnosed with Marburg until July 2008, when she requested retesting because she had heard about a Dutch tourist who had developed a fatal case of Marburg after visiting a bat cave in Uganda. The woman had also visited that cave in December, 2007, days before falling ill.
If health care workers were able to treat a woman with Marburg and manage to avoid getting sick even though they didn't know she had Marburg, I'm fairly certain that any hospital can do the same with Ebola, especially since they will know they are dealing with Ebola.