Up until five years ago I worked as a speech pathologist in a large Midwestern public school district. Every year the poor school nurse had to be roped into presenting a horribly-produced bit of video on “Blood Borne Pathogens.” It was old, it was cheesy, and had this awful soundtrack that remains in my head like the Earworm That Wouldn't Die.
We were instructed on the proper way to handle the cuts and scrapes that happen regularly among the elementary school population. We were taught the proper use of surgical gloves, how to dispose of them, how to dispose of anything soiled with blood or body fluids. The use of specialized cleaning chemicals was the purview of the janitors. Ebola wasn’t an issue back then, but we were supposed to be covered for such things as Hepatitis or even HIV (which never entered our school).
Imagine my shock when I saw this picture of a man delivering food to the family of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan, quarantined in their Dallas home:
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