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In reply to the discussion: 16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)When a patient has full blown Ebola, ever opening of their body is spewing out gunk - blood, puke, feces, sweat - and that is all filled with live Ebola looking for a new host.
The Doctors and Nurses over there do have Hazmat suits but they are tired and the sanitation isn't as perfect as a laboratory setting. So there is always a chance that somehow that Virus gets through the protection. Perhaps there is a cut in the suit. Perhaps the Clorox shower didn't kill everything on the outside of the Hazmat suit. There's just to much what-ifs going on over there. And with these doctors & nurses overworked and tired these things happen.
I hope more people like Mark Zuckerberg step up with some big donations. There needs to be more protection, better sanitation and more doctors to ensure that the people helping the sick do not get exhausted and overlook safety procedures that keep them from getting infected.