16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead

[LynneSin]

67. I agree about our healthcare system in the states

I have said long ago that we need to shut down all flight heading out of the 3 countries with the highest infection rate and only allow flights out after we are ensured that the people leaving are not infected. Think about it - the nations surrounding those 3 countries have not had outbreaks and the reason why - they have all shut down their borders. Senegal got one case of Ebola and then they shut down their common border with Guinea. They knew better.

But these makeshift hospitals where the sick are being treated is - they aren't working. The virus is passed via body fluid - every single type of body fluid imaginable. And in the late stages of Ebola a patient has fluids coming out everywhere, even in their sweat it's teeming with Ebola virus. So you have to assume that anything someone touches in that room probably has been contaminate with Ebola because even if the the virus isn't technically 'airborne' you can imagine that someone is vomiting that some of that stuff goes flying. Sneezing some of that could go flying. There is body fluid flying all over the place. That means every inch of those hazmats suits are covered with body fluids that are contaminated.

With not enough doctors and staff, the ones over there are exhausted and mistakes are made. It's too easy to accidentally touch something contaminated - an area that wasn't heavily cleaned with Clorox to ensure the bugger is dead.

These countries are not tourist destination nor are they global business hubs. Shut down flights. The neighboring countries are already securing borders (and do you think someone sick with Ebola is going to be able to walk cross country to get out?). Then drop some serious cash over in West Africa to get enough money for equipment, sanitation and help to fight this disease properly.