Presbyterian workers wore no hazmat suits for two days while treating Ebola patient

Here's what the CDC recommends for Ebola --> http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html

"Gloves-Gown-Eye protection-Facemask", which is pretty much what my dentist is wearing every time he works on me. IMO, this is woefully inadequate for a pathogen like Ebola.

Dollars-to-donuts nobody from the CDC (or anywhere else) told Nurse Vinson not to fly.

While I’m remaining of the opinion this is a manufactured crisis (no less real, but not as bad as being hyped)...

...I fail to see the humor in using the word ‘incompetence’ to describe these workers, the CDC, hospital, etc.

From the CDC Head all the way down to the hospital...

...it’s “Criminal Negligence”. IMHO

Back in 1982, a gay man in San Francisco developed an unknown disease. It turned out that he had been a flight attendant and had recently been to central Africa where a "new" disease was but what he had was still a mystery. He died not long after that.

A few months later a NUN developed the same disease as the male flight attendant but her disease could not have been from "unsafe" sex, as how the assumed-promiscuous male flight attendant got his disease.

After MORE months went by with more and more new cases. The worst part was that no one know how it could be transferred from person to person. I used to worry about shaking hands with strangers at church. What is some gay man shook my hand and he has this disease?

More months passed and the FOUR "H"s were considered the new buzzwords of this new disease of people who got the disease: hemophiliacs, homosexuals...and I can't remember the other two...a long time ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_HIV/AIDS
It's pretty graphic but it clearly outlines the march of this "unknown disease," which first surfaced.

Wikipedia
1900s: Researchers estimate that some time in the early 1900s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus, SIV, was transmitted to humans in central Africa. The mutated virus was later identified as the first of other human immunodeficiency viruses, HIV-1.
1959
X-ray showing infection with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
The first known case of HIV in a human occurs in a man who died in the Congo, later (from his preserved blood samples) confirmed as having HIV infection. The authors of the study did not sequence a full virus from his samples, writing that "attempts to amplify HIV-1 fragments of >300 base pairs (bp) were unsuccessful ... However, after numerous attempts, four shorter sequences were obtained"; these represented small portions of two of the six genes of the complete HIV genome.

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We FINALLY learned all about this "new" disease and that I would have to come into body fluid contact with another person--saliva to saliva, so 99.9% of us were safe.
BUT, it was pretty scary for a while.

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