[petitfour]

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/10/us_hospitals_ready_to_treat_eb.html

Check out the pictures of the costumes the nurses and physicians at this hospital reportedly will wear to treat an Ebola patient. If I were a nurse there, I wouldn’t go to work.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That is criminal...they are putting their nurse's lives at terrible risk dressing them like that. You need to dress like THIS in presence of Ebola-infected patients. These are "Biosafety Level 4" protective suits, the highest level of protection available against the most virulent diseases known to man.

You strip naked to don these suits. No street clothes allowed at all.

[greeneyes]

Now that looks like less than what I saw on the workers over seas. Hair/head is exposed, the coverall appears thinner, and I didn’t see any protective boots and no sticky tape to tape around the gloves and pants legs.

Their usual protocol is to have a medical waste receptical right outside the doorway too, and that generally is right in the hallway - a double entry would be better.

In the level 4 labs, you don’t take off the gear, until you have gone through more than one decontamination areas including UV light.

I wouldn’t step foot inside a room with an Ebola patient in the gear that is pictured there, but then I am an advocate of an abundance of caution for diseases with 50% or more mortality and no real cure or vaccine for prevention.