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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to be in contact with body fluids in order to catch it.  The medical professionals dealing with the outbreak get exhausted and let their guard down and are exposed to this very messy disease that way.  Imagine a scenario where they wear the biohazard suits all day but slip up when they take it off and touch the outside of the suit with bare hands, etc.

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But, they are only allowed to wear the hot suits for 1 hour at a time, then they have go to through a decontamination station and are helped out of the suits by a decontamination team (they do not remove them themselves, and the outside of the suits are sprayed down with disinfectant before removing anything), then they have to re-hydrate for 2 hours after that because of all the fluids they loose while inside the suits.  It seems like infection would be pretty difficult given all those procedures[/quote]

Difficult but not impossible.

Unless you think the virus can magically get through the containment suits, human error (accidentally breaking containment) is how it happens. They do this so many times that mistakes are inevitable at some point.[/quote]

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