Why the Heroes at Doctors Without Borders Are Catching Ebola
WashingtonsBlog.com
October 29, 2014
They’re Not Wearing Respirators
Doctors Without Borders is the group of heroic doctors on the ground treating Ebola patients in West Africa.
(They do a lot of other great work all over the world during wars, natural disasters and other crisis.)
But their doctor Craig Spencer caught Ebola in West Africa, and is now in Bellvue Hospital in New York.
And as Doctors Without Borders notes last week:
To date, 24 MSF staff have contracted Ebola and 13 have died. [“MSF” is short for the group’s official name in French: Medecins Sans Frontiers]
Why have they caught Ebola?
After all, they’re wearing protective gear.
Indeed, their website says:
They wear full personal protective equipment—PPE—that negates contact with the bodily fluids of patients.
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