Thank you! The question why the family and first emergency room handlers have not contracted and how a nurse in protective gear has contracted has been driving me nuts. Could the nurse have handeled blood and the others just contact with bodily fluids?
I/we don’t know the answers to your questions.
The reality is simple re how these people in Spain and in Dallas got Ebola.
The CDC protective garb recommendations, before Ebola started happening in America is not adequate and dangerous.
Therefore any training how to protect the hospital workers based on CDC recommendations was dangerous and not helpful.
The nurse handled the patient (and fluids) at a later stage with more virus. Also nurses job is sometimes to get messy (e.g. cleaning fluids off the patient). From what I can tell the family, primarily the "stepdaughter" Youngor Jallah disinfected after handling the patient. With no protection and some care that might be less risky than getting covered in fluids and expecting the suit to save you.
The biggest difference is the stage of disease with more bleeding and more viruses.