Dr. Matthew, however, kept all kin away from infectious patients.
Managers said the hospital was designed to safely house infectious patients.
There were reports of infectious patients being left for hours in hospital corridors, because no clean rooms were available.
She was evacuated to the Royal Free, which has a specialist isolation unit for highly infectious patients.
At the same time, though, it placed health-care workers in close quarters with highly infectious patients and increased their chances of contracting Ebola.
She was evacuated to London and sent to the Royal Free, which has a specialist isolation unit for highly infectious patients.
The mortality rate for infectious patients is less than 5% where DOTS has been introduced; elsewhere it is 29%.
N-95 respirators are thicker fiber masks, often round or duck-billed in shape, worn by construction workers to keep out dust or paint, and by hospital nurses working with infectious patients.
Residents of many neighborhoods burned down their "pesthouses" (isolation hospitals for infectious patients), fled when vaccinators approached, fought with police, forged vaccination certificates, and often simply refused to deliver sick relatives to authorities.
Some doctors engaged in the hazardous task of treating highly infectious patients in pneumonia wards here initially moved into hotels to reduce the risk of infecting their families in the evening, although hospital officials have since provided temporary housing for such doctors.
The finding is concerning, researchers say, because germs can travel through latex gloves, and because they're often worn when doctors work with bodily fluids and the sickest, most infectious patients.
