from reddit , very good reading :

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How can the doctors and nurses prevent themselves from getting the virus as they help others?
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[–]RichardPreston[S] 1453 points 13 hours ago
They haven't been able to fully protect themselves, doctors and nurses are dying. They're wearing full protection biohazard suits, but the Ebola wards are just horrifying, 30 Ebola patients with one doctor and one nurse, both in space suits. Conditions are awful in those wards, we need more doctors and nurses - not even a space suit can totally protect you if the ward is really a mess.

[–]NoveltyAccountFraud 249 points 5 days ago*
What are the chances
that this outbreak becomes a
global pandemic?
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[–]Prof_Stephen_MorseProfessor|Epidemiology|Columbia University[S] 188 points 5 days ago
The only good news, if there is good news, as Tom Frieden at the CDC says, is that Ebola kills fairly quickly and is not very transmissible. So I think the chances of global pandemic are minuscule. We could see isolated cases in other countries if someone gets on a plane and goes someplace with a hospital where the infection control isn’t very good. But even then, it would probably be localized. This is of course a problem for all the movies since they want to make whatever disease is in the film be very transmissible. Even the movie Contagion, which was accurate in many respects, had to really amp-up the transmissibility of the virus.