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In reply to the discussion: Healthcare worker was wearing CDC approved protective gear. [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)They cleaned the room, the Spanish nurse helped clean the room. Almost certainly using chemicals to kill the ebola virus. That's the situation. Then after cleaning, she may, may have touched her face with her gloved hand.
So the chemicals they were spraying around, the UV lights they were presumably using, and yet enough Ebola was left viable to remain on the glove while she went to the room where she would change out of her protective gear. Then presumably Ebola worked it's way in through her skin, or migrated into her nose, from the surface of her skin, all the while having been exposed to things designed to kill the little bugger.
Um, OK.
So after wiping down every surface with bleach or some other disinfectant solution, we think some ebola remained on her glove.