CDC Throws Nurse Under the Bus, Blames Victim for Her Ebola

CDC Throws Nurse Under the Bus, Blames Victim for Her Ebola: AUSTIN, Texas -- As news has spread Sunday about the second Ebola case in Texas, a nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who treated Thomas Eric Duncan before he died earlier this month, questions have arisen about how the deadly disease was transmitted, considering that the nurse was wearing protective gear. The head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Thomas Frieden, blamed a clear breach of safety protocol for the transmission, an opinion that has been contradicted by other medical experts.





 "To do it safely, health care workers need to train and practice using protective equipment," he said,
mentioning special biocontainment units at Emory University Hospital in
Atlanta and the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. "I would never have
gone into an Ebola ward in Africa without being dressed and
decontaminated by experts -- health care workers here should expect no
less."







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