Ebola Ready To Devastate Economy–Nurses Outraged Over Ebola Lack Of Training And Directions (Picture)

Thomas Eric Duncan is dead. But the Ebola virus the Dallas resident carried didn’t die with him.

Instead, it made the leap to one of his nurses at Texas health Presbyterian Hospital. And that is perhaps one of the scariest developments in this epidemic yet.

Why? Because the nurse supposedly used an extensive amount of protective gear — a gown, gloves, mask, and face shield — and because health care officials can’t explain why or how she got sick!

She has been identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham. And she was reportedly in isolation at home due to her extensive contact with Duncan during his illness. Then she reported to the hospital for treatment in an isolation room after she developed a fever, and labs confirmed she had the virus.

News of the new Dallas infection followed earlier news of a Spanish health-care worker contracting the disease from a patient in Madrid. It’s possible the additional cases are related to the way in which the nurses put on or removed their gear.

U.S. hospitals may not be able to safely treat Ebola patients.

But to be frank, officials don’t really have a concrete explanation. That has the National Nurses United worried. A whopping 76 percent of the 2,000 members that the largest nurses’ organization surveyed said they weren’t being told enough about how to deal with Ebola patients.

While officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and throughout the health care system wrestle with these new developments, the economic risk of the Ebola outbreak is rising. There’s a real possibility that travel and leisure businesses will suffer just as they did during previous outbreaks like SARS and avian flu. And that, in turn, could put even more downside pressure on the markets. MORE