dr. macgregor-skinner. he is a infectious disease expert with theringering foundation. i want to know some of your other history. you recently returned from nigeria where you were actually treating patients on the ground with ebola. you also worked in helping prevent disease after the 2004 tsunami. you have an extensive background here in dealing with these outbreaks. i'd like to get your thoughts off the bat about some of the latest headlines we've heard out of the ebola outbreak. the dallas officials have -- people wn to 10 who might have been infected with ebola. the death toll worldwide is now over 3,300. are we handling this epidemic in the right way? >> that's a very good question. we have within the us health care system a wonderful trained .ealth care staff we have the staff in place. what we really have at the moment is a hub type approach to controlling ebola. the c.d.c. is in the center and then we have all the health care systems, whether it be the hospitals, the urgent health care, the travel c

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dr. robert macgregor-skinner remains with us. so dr.you talk to us about the breach of protocol, and explain to us exactly what that means to you about what happened? >> well, something obviously inadvertent happened, because the nurse to date has not reported an overt breach, and her colleagues working with her have not reported that a breach took place. however, this is early days in the investigation, and if subsequent information comes out, we will find it. as many of us have said, the most hazardous moment is actually when you are going on break, when you are off of your shift, and after working in the intensive environment like this with all of the protective equipment, you are eager to take it off. and you need to be with a buddy, because that moment of disrobing is the most hazardous. it is more hazardous there than taking care of the patient. >> dr. hidalgia, can you tell us how is it that the nurse involved saying that i don't recall any time where it might have been a breach, those around her are reporting that they don't rec

dr. macgregor-skinner and juliette kayyem. the emergency management who seemed confident but reaching a lot of people with who he came in contact with. he could have come in contact with thousands of people. >> he could have, but, again, he's conscious and talking to authorities and he's really giving a lot of information of where he has traveled to and where he's been and light of parallels between new york city and what we experienced in lagos in nigeria. it's a megacity of 21 million people and when patrick sawyer arrived, that patient, again, we expanded this huge net of contact tracing in the nigerian government visited over 26,000 homes and families and talked to so many people and, again, there wasle 894 people from the 20 cases to do that contact tracing. what new york is doing is correct, it's right, it's the principles we use every day to fight ebola and find and detect early to ensure no one else gets this terrible disease. >> to dr. garza. let's talk about the flights that dr. spencer took. how much do we know abou

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