<story><title>Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/dallas-health-care-worker-who-treated-thomas-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/?hpid=z1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>More people should understand that hospitals are messy. Really messy. From wiping vomit to feces to rolling over patients to changing chucks to wiping down monitor cables to handling bottles of saline that you may inadvertently leave out in the open for others to touch to not disposing spare gauze that may be contaminated to forgetting to wipe down your stethoscope to tearing your gown off as you rush to see another patient, etc etc etc. There are any number of people going in and out of a patient&amp;#x27;s room, performing a wide array of tasks, handling an even wider array of objects. Add to that the often hurried nature of hospitals and you get an environment prone to breaches of protocol.&lt;p&gt;I say this not to incite panic, but to provide insight that many might not have. It is more likely that during the thousands of interactions that this patient saw, the messiness led to a breach, instead of the virus infecting via a vector we&amp;#x27;ve not yet realized.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/dallas-health-care-worker-who-treated-thomas-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/?hpid=z1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>PPE is hard... Every time you take it off is an opportunity for infection. It&amp;#x27;s very easy to get complacent and not be as careful as you should be (yes, even when dealing with something like Ebola). When you&amp;#x27;re donning and doffing dozens of times a day, mistakes happen. It&amp;#x27;s very likely she wasn&amp;#x27;t the only one to be exposed, but hopefully she&amp;#x27;s the only one that was infected.</text></comment>