Dallas nurses describe poor safety measures with Ebola patient

Los Angeles Times | October 14, 2014 | 7:08 PM

A Liberian man sat for "several hours" in a hospital room with other patients before being isolated, and the nurses who treated him had little protective gear while dealing with "copious amounts" of body fluids, the nurses alleged Tuesday.
Nina Pham, a co-worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, is fighting an Ebola infection she got from the Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan.
The nurses described a hospital with no clear guidelines in place for handling Ebola patients, where Duncan's lab specimens were sent through the usual hospital tube system "without being specifically sealed and hand-delivered. The result is that the entire tube system, which all the lab systems are sent, was potentially contaminated."
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