BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- The concern over the Ebola outbreak comes right from the top. The director of the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday that he has not seen anything like this since the AIDS crisis, and he urged action now before Ebola becomes the next AIDS.
In the meantime, there is tension over the death of Thomas Duncan in Dallas. He is the Liberian man suffering from Ebola who traveled to Dallas, Texas for treatment. On the day after Ebola took Duncan's life, his family said that he received inferior treatment because he was a poor black man from West Africa. The hospital denied that Thursday, saying a team of more than 50 doctors and nurses worked 24 hours to save him.
On a more positive note, one of the deputies who had contact with Duncan and who suddenly got sick Wednesday has been tested and does not have Ebola.
In New York, at La Guardia Airport, workers who clean the cabins of planes walked off their jobs. They said they are not adequately protected against exposure to Ebola. About 200 of them staged a 24 hour strike, claiming they come in contact with items like hypodermic needles, blood, and vomit.
In Spain, a nurse who cared for West African missionaries has contracted Ebola and her condition is said to be worsening. The two doctors who treated her are now being watched.
Finally, a strange situation on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican Republic. A man sneezed on the plane and said, out loud, that he came from Africa and other passengers alerted authorities. Workers in hazmat suits removed the passenger from the plane, as he said aloud that he was only joking.
Clearly, as 4,000 people around the world are infected with Ebola, and fears that number will only rise, no one is in any mood to joke about the virus.
