From ABCNews.com:

New Concern Worldwide as Nurse in Spain Gets Ebola

By CONNIE CASS and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

Raising fresh concern around the world, a nurse in Spain on Monday became the first person known to catch Ebola outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. In the U.S., President Barack Obama said the government was considering ordering more careful screening of airline passengers arriving from the region.

In Spain, the stricken nurse had been part of a team that treated two missionaries flown home to Spain after becoming infected with Ebola in West Africa. The nurse’s only symptom was a fever, but the infection was confirmed by two tests, Spanish health officials said. She was being treated in isolation, while authorities drew up a list of people she had had contact with.

I have just two questions: 1) if officials are unsure how the nurse, a trained and experienced medical professional, managed to contract Ebola — what does that say about the cadre of roughly 3,000 American troops that Mr Obama plans to place in harm’s way in West Africa, when they are not so trained?

I’d care to have someone answer that question.  To me, it would appear those are nothing more than potential victims.  It is an extremely ill-advised move.

Question 2: if Ebola can only be contracted through bodily fluids, then any given individual should be able to safely stand in a room with an Ebola patient, in street clothes.  If that is true, then why is everyone coming in contact with Ebola victims gowned and gloved and masked to the Nth degree?

Correct.  No one trusts Ebola.

And no one should.

BZ