Cover Story: The Ebola protocol, and what is the cost?

Oct 17, 2014, 5:00am CDT

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Caution tape marks the entrance to Ebola patient Nina Pham’s Dallas apartment.

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Bill Hethcock and Korri Kezar: Dallas Business Journal

Breach of protocol. That was the initial explanation for how 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola from a Liberian patient she was treating at a Dallas hospital. Three days later Pham's co-worker, 29-year-old Amber Joy Vinson, tested positive for the virus.

More than three weeks after Ebola was diagnosed for the first time in the United States, questions abound about whether the procedures for handling the deadly disease were followed and whether the protocols themselves should be overhauled.

As health officials grapple with controlling the spread of a Third World disease in the world's most technologically advanced country, ...

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