Health officials in the U.S. insist that someone made a mistake in order for the women caregiver to contract Ebola from her patient. They call it a “breach in protocol” but its a mistake. Somehow the full protection gear this woman wore as she looked after the late Thomas Eric Duncan was compromised. The experts on the scene in Dallas at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital are not sure who let it happen or how it happened. It may have been the woman herself. Or not. It is possible to touch the outside of the protection gear when it is removed. It may have been contaminated. It is a disturbing additional mystery and concern for the authorities as they work to keep the virus isolated. Thomas Frieden, chief of the Centre for Disease Control, said his agency will investigate. “At some point there was a breach in protocol,” Frieden said. “That breach in protocol resulted in this infection.”
