Even a brief bleach wash or wipe down of the outside of the suit should go a long way before exiting the suit.
They have people spraying down the suits before they get out of them - quite a few of the stories posted have pictures of that process. In fact, that was Nancy Writebol’s job when she got Ebola .... a job that may not have been as “low risk” as she thought, although she could have been infected elsewhere .... interesting that she sometimes didn’t wear a mask ....
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“My responsibility originally was I was going to mix the bleach solutions,” Writebol said. She ended up helping doctors and nurses suit up before they entered the isolation unit, and then helped them remove the suits correctly when they came out.
It’s a vital job — the layers of gloves, the goggles, the boots, the body suits all protect workers from the virus-laden bodily fluids that spread infection. But all that protection does no good if the doctors and nurses get even a few drops of that contaminated mess on their hands or skin, or in their eyes, as they pull the gear off.
Nancy helped spray everyone down, get the layers off in the right order and then made sure everything got either burned or disinfected.
“I was considered to be in a low-risk zone,” she said. “There was a line, an actual line on the floor that I didn’t cross. When they came out and I decontaminated them, I never touched them. I was wearing a gown, I was wearing gloves, and sometimes I was wearing a mask, but not all the time.” But she always had a gown and gloves on. “There was never a fear that I would be contaminated.”