EBOLA Airplane cleaning crews; another weak link?

[changed]

Ok, when ever an airliner touches down and unloads passengers, cleaning crews come on and clean the jet. They clean the restroom where people doo doo and throw up. They do not wear PPE. They are not trained in handling ebola contaminated things. They are doing this all over the world. Are we going to start hearing reports of airplane cleaning crews getting sick from ebola?

 

[vessie]

Most likely.

Ebola will get it's 'wings' faster this way unfortunately. *sigh* V

 

[Trivium Pursuit]

Ok, when ever an airliner touches down and unloads passengers, cleaning crews come on and clean the jet. They clean the restroom where people doo doo and throw up. They do not wear PPE. They are not trained in handling ebola contaminated things. They are doing this all over the world. Are we going to start hearing reports of airplane cleaning crews getting sick from ebola?

No, we won't HEAR about it if it happens in this country. Didn't you know we now have a czar to handle that? If it happens elsewhere, might see it in the Guardian or Daily Mail...

 

[Doomer Doug]

The nurses showed that if you use level two pathogen training, equipment to deal with a level four pathogen like Ebola you will get infected.

So, yes anybody who cleaned any type of surface potentially contaminated with Ebola virus is at risk of infection.

 

[dstraito]

I had a question about planes and their crews.

Granted, the head of this country would rather risk harming Americans than hurting a third world countries economy so they continue to allow flights from those African countries,

BUT

What airline, what pilot, and what crew wants to fly into and out of one of these countries. Why have not the airlines themselves stopped, I mean the profit can't be that great, especially if they have to decontaminate the entire plane, not to mention quarantine and pay their crews for 21 days per incident.

 

[Babs]

I had a question about planes and their crews.

Granted, the head of this country would rather risk harming Americans than hurting a third world countries economy so they continue to allow flights from those African countries,

BUT

What airline, what pilot, and what crew wants to fly into and out of one of these countries. Why have not the airlines themselves stopped, I mean the profit can't be that great, especially if they have to decontaminate the entire plane, not to mention quarantine and pay their crews for 21 days per incident.

Very good point. They should be refusing. Labs are refusing to do the testing for Ebola.