Ebola: Mistakes In Fighting Deadly Virus
A man without any protective equipment is spotted helping a nurse with ebola board a plane, the latest in a line of errors.
A man has been spotted helping a nurse in
the US with ebola board a flight to a specialist unit - without wearing
any protective equipment.
The man, who is carrying a clipboard, comes within feet of
Amber Vinson, who is now being treated in isolation in Atlanta, Georgia.He is seen handling items given to him by a person wearing protective clothing.
Ebola is contracted through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, and it is not airborne.
But this incident is the latest to raise questions about the US response to the outbreak, which has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa.
Other mistakes include:
:: Allowing Ms Vinson to travel on a commercial plane from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas, even though she was showing the early symptoms of ebola.
The nurse did tell officials she was running a temperature, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is trying to track down 132 other passengers who were on that plane.
:: Another nurse who contracted ebola did so after an "unspecified breach of protocol". Nina Pham, 26, had been wearing full protective gear when she was treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died after catching ebola in Liberia.
:: Healthcare workers have inadvertently violated protocols by wearing too many protective layers, according to CDC director Thomas Frieden.
:: Mr Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with antibiotics, despite telling medical staff he had come from the West African nation. Staff mistakenly thought he was suffering from a "low-grade common viral disease".
:: Workers were seen not wearing any protective clothing while they cleaned the outside of his Dallas apartment.
:: A nursing union has alleged a litany of errors in the treatment of Mr Duncan, claiming that he was kept in a non-isolated area of the emergency department for several hours and that nurses treating him were also taking care of other patients.
However, one notable success in the fight against ebola involves Nigeria and Senegal, two countries where the outbreak has been largely contained.
Nigeria had eight deaths but brought its outbreak under control by tracking 894 people who had been in contact with a man who brought the virus from Liberia, and visiting 18,500 more people to check for symptoms.
Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa, said the organisation was "incredibly impressed by the ability of Nigeria and Senegal to keep their epidemics contained".
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