The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued new guidelines for protective gear for those treating Ebola patients.
The announcement comes after two Dallas nurses contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., who died of the disease. And last week, another nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan was treated, said that the protective gear the nurses treating Duncan wore had a gap around the neck.
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