Did he stand up all the way from Africa?
He was probably in some kind of isolated roomette, rather than that getup, for the flight. He’s probably not wearing it in his room, either.
Many years ago one of my sons was @ Johns Hopkins, and contracted some bug, requiring isolation. They had a special, fully glass enclosed room for him to stay in until the contagious period had passed. It would be easy enough to have something like that constructed on the plane, if such didn’t already exist, which one would assume it does.
just saw this:
“Dr Kent Brantly of Texas was transported to the Emory University hospital in Atlanta, where he will be quarantined in a sophisticated isolation unit. He returned to the US in a private jet outfitted with a containment tent.
“Transport of the second aid worker, the South Carolina missionary Nancy Writebol, is expected to be completed early in the week. She is also expected to be treated at Emory. Writebol is travelling later because the jet is only designed to carry one patient at a time.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3188291/posts