FILE: In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, passenger Don...

FILE: In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, passenger Don Heim, right, of Alpharetta, Ga., is briefed by Transportation Security Administration trainer Byron Gibson before going through a new expedited security line at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The news that a man flew from Liberia to the U.S. after exposure to Ebola, and wound up in a hospital isolation ward, has led to calls for tougher measures to protect Americans, such as a ban on flights from countries hit by the epidemic. Credit: AP / David Goldman

I'm a registered nurse with considerable experience in infection control ["More airport Ebola screening," News, Oct. 8]. The answer to preventing Ebola from infecting this country is quite simple: Limit people's entrance.

This is not a matter of prejudice. Infection control protocols are very explicit.

But we human beings get tired or distracted. A simple break in protocol allows infections to spread. Witness the nursing assistant in a Madrid hospital who was recently infected with the disease. She was part of a team caring for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month after being evacuated from Sierra Leone.

The nursing assistant may not have even broken the protocol. If someone else who cared for the Ebola patient was not careful, objects could have become contaminated, leading to another person becoming a victim.

Jessie Nelson, Lindenhurst
 

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