Okay, but, the hospital gets hit with a very high risk patient and has no experience in dealing with it and, if the news reports are to be believed, gets very little assistance from the organization that is tasked with dealing with such things.

And, keep in mind that the ebola patient had a viral disease and every emergency room in the country sees patients with a viral disease with similar symptoms very frequently. Granted the ER people didn't tumble to the ebola link right away.

Reminds me of the first case of Lyme disease where a young woman came down with the previously unknown disease and didn't get immediate appropriate treatment and had significant problems from the disease. Most of those problems could now have been avoided but they didn't know what they were dealing with so didn't know how to treat it.

Anyway, it would be a shame for a big hospital serving thousands of people to fail because of a single incident from a person's illness when that person shouldn't have even been in the country.


Retired cat herder.