Originally Posted by carpediemracing

So many articles on Ebola I can't find the one that talks about the time line but it seems that the guy in TX was in a regular ward for a day or so in addition to waiting in the waiting room for a few hours, all while he was leaking infectious fluids. All contacts at the time were not "controlled" if you will, meaning the staff didn't take much extra precautions. Also all the fluid samples weren't handled any differently than normal, in terms of lab technicians etc.

A few dropped balls like this and it'll get kind of ugly pretty quickly.