Um, guys, the biggest problem right now, besides the resultant PR nightmare from the problem, is the crappy contact tracing they are doing. Seriously, you need a freaking hazmat suit but you don't assume contact? Are they idiots? That's an associate at the very least and should be treated as such. The idiotic way they did this coupled with the panicked response (the dog? Seriously, an asymptomatic contact and you're quarantining the dog?) is gonna make it harder to get any personnel to work with patients - this should have been addressed in the planning stage years ago. We have a huge bioterrorism machine - use that!
Better yet, let the TB folks take the lead. Ebola is very similar in the kind of contacts you need to look for (TB can be airborne but requires considerable exposure so it's similar to direct contact in how we do the contact tracing). It's like they are reinventing the wheel for no good reason.
Better yet, let the TB folks take the lead. Ebola is very similar in the kind of contacts you need to look for (TB can be airborne but requires considerable exposure so it's similar to direct contact in how we do the contact tracing). It's like they are reinventing the wheel for no good reason.
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