If you work in the inner sanctum of the CDC and/or military installations where handling really nasty stuff is a daily occurrence, suiting up and suit removal is a routine practice. You are quite familiar with the drill and practice it day-in, day-out. If you work at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, you do NOT do this day-in, day-out and lapses are more likely to happen. Just my $0.02.

Well, you are also forgetting that the virologists at the CDC were leaving pandemic viral samples out in the open to culture & such without bothering to put them away.

Doctors are not obsessed with safety and accountability in the way of say, the military, these are arrogant people by nature and are going to flaunt the safety measures just because they can and they won't be fired.

And what would that mean - sequestering them into the Ebola Inn for 21 days (or more) before allowing them to travel?

I'm trying to wrap my mind around this... if I, as a Hazmat Tech, can suit up in a Level A Suit (also known as a Moon suit), go into a nasty deadly environment, do my job, and on exiting be safely and correctly decontaminated and doff my suit safely without contaminating myself or others... how is it that these people cannot?

There is something really wrong - and sorry to say, suspicious - about this. Like Jim, I am not a microbiologist or epidemiologist, but I do know about protective measures... why anyone with any level of responsibility for someone elses safety and health would send them into a situation with less than necessary protection... and worse, way way underestimate the hazard or transmission vectors to make it sound safe...

It sounds like when they told the responders to Chernobyl that if you only go in for 5 minutes you'll be fine... knowing a 5 second exposure would give the responders a lethal dose of radiation, and relying on the responders lack of knowledge and deliberate misinformation to get them to go in, essentially like sheep...

But we have OBAMACARE, and everything is free! There's no need to worry about petty things like money any longer. </sarcasm off>

Victims! They are all victims!
It couldn't be anything they did!
(But I do see your point;^)

they stressed in one article I read that protocol was definitely breached. What is the protocol for removing the protective gear, for instance?

Correction to the above- keep all people EXCEPT those proven to be disease free from leaving the affected countries...

They can't even keep their own internal processes safe.

If I owned a hospital, I would NOT admit an ebola patient to it. First of all, its dangerous to the people in the hospital, whether patients or caregivers. Secondly, its EXPENSIVE, and who is going to pay for it. The real way to keep ebola contained is to keep the people proven free of the disease of the affected countries from leaving. Cut out ALL air travel from those countries to anywhere until this is contained. Forget checking for temperature once they arrive in the USA- what if they were infected 2 days ago and it takes up to 21 days for a full blown diagnosis of ebola? I live in Las Vegas, where people come from all over the world- Its VERY SCARY and I dont think the government here has much of a plan to prevent the spread. As it is, I dont want to go to the casinos or public places here because of it. One good case of ebola in Caesars palace and the entire strip will be empty as people cancel their plans to come to Las Vegas. Same would be true of any vacation destination (Orlando, Fla for example).

A single sneeze will carry bodily fluid under projectile power for over 50 feet, releasing it into air ducts and a building's atmosphere. See http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gross-coughs...

Any job trying to sell the flawed policy of the dotgov for the dotgov is destined to failure. His agency is supposed to protect the public; the problem is, he can't protect the public from the deliberate and systematic introduction of this likely (and to the dotgov, hopefully) pandemic strain.

Didn't work with the bird flu, as it turned out not to be a good contagion, but they know this one does transmit easily and has a high mortality rate, so there ya go. Problem solved.

Victims... or perpetrators?

If you can't get the sheeple to cower in fear and hand over more freedom to the dotgov using what worked for the past 10 years (terrorists), invent a new monster under the bed. Ebola seems to be just the ticket...

They should be decontaminated externally before they start removing the protective clothing.

one more nail in the coffin.

I agree. From a related article: "At some point there was a breach in protocol," Frieden said. "That breach in protocol resulted in this infection." There really isn't another rationale given what we know about this virus.

That was my thought as well.

I think it's transmittable from skin particles airborn after scraping ones skin... Not an airborn disease, but is kind of from that. Disrobing and touching the suit while removing it..., and handling the corpse are all serious threats.

Because they keep sending him out with more lies and he looks like an idiot a few days after. Unfortunately "public relations" is a rough field to find another job in.

They are victims of Looters disease.
It breaks out everywhere there is centralized unearned power.

I have not worked in that environment but I worked on Nuclear Power Plants while in the Navy. You have to be very careful when removing the protective garb. I had to wear similar gear to prevent from becoming contaminated by particles when entering the reactor compartment for maintenance. When removing the protective garments, you have to be careful in how you duff (remove) them. There may be contamination or residue on the outside of the garment. So you have to remove in a certain order and do it in such a way as to contain the contaminant within the garment. My understanding of this (and there are several variants) is that the virus is transmitted by bodily fluids and that as long as it is in a liquid form, it can last up to 3 days or so. Granted, I am not a microbiologist or anything, just experienced in preventing the spread of contamination.

We were just discussing this here at our compound. If the village barber in Westerville, Ohio and the local school bus driver (different families) know that flights need to be grounded and borders closed...WTF is wrong with those idiots in Washington DC?

As he should be... our regime continued to tell us there's nothing to fear, but they are the same ones telling us that closing our borders will make the problem worse. <shakes head>

Why is $5Au reminded of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN?

That CDC guy appears more depressed at every news conference.