I have seen some video from Liberia that shows ladies washing the big blue elbow length gloves and putting them on sticks to dry in the sun.
They were washing them by immersing them in a bucket. This would contaminate the entire interior of the glove with virus-laden water. The interior of the glove. The part that goes next to the skin of whomever is wearing it.
I understand this is Africa, where AIDS was spread for years by re-using needles. Resources are virtually non-existent and ignorance and corruption is rife, but improper use of protective equipment is almost worse than none at all, because it gives a false sense of security.
This equipment should be incinerated after use, not washed and re-used.
The ladies doing the washing were unprotected, also.
Mrs. AV
I’m afraid that that video gives a very misleading impression of what is actually going on.
Based on the report given by Richard Preston in the New Yorker, the medical infrastructure in Monrovia has effectively collapsed, which is probably the primary reason why the two infected US doctors have been flown to Atlanta.
I’m going to link to the article again, and everyone should read it:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/outbreak