It wasn't until Pham was diagnosed with Ebola that health officials decided [View all]

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that health care workers stop seeing other patients... Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!

They let all these HCW's see other patients after having direct contact with an Ebola patient.

And they weren't on any list, they were just told to self monitor and if they felt sick let someone know. WTF????

Duncan's family was put in strict isolation after having contact with him.

From the CDC down to the local public health official fucked up big time.

STOP BLAMING PEOPLE WHO WERE TOLD and TREATED BY PROFESSIONALS in a way that THEIR RISK OF CONTRACTING EBOLA WAS MINISCULE!

Ebola Monitoring Inconsistent as Virus Spread

The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient. He quickly asked for the hospital's watch list to find out who else might be at risk.

"It was explained to me that this person, (nurse) Nina Pham, was not on a monitoring list because she was self-monitoring," said Judge Clay Jenkins, who is overseeing the county's emergency response. Simply put, she and her co-workers, who were handing fluids, inserting IVs and cleaning Thomas Eric Duncan in his dying days, were supposed to take their own temperatures and let someone know if they felt sick.

That wasn't nearly enough for Jenkins, and that evening, he began to make changes. Hospital officials told potentially exposed hospital workers to stop seeing patients other than Pham.

But the next day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allowed another nurse who cared for Duncan, Amber Vinson, to get on a plane in Ohio and fly to Dallas with a mild fever. She was later diagnosed with Ebola, and CDC Director Tom Frieden has conceded that she "should not have travelled on a commercial airline."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ebola-monitoring-inconsistent-virus-spread-26292097