the nigerian invited my team from the elizabeth r. griffin research foundation and paid for us to work with their plan and make it work. what was unique about the nigerian plan, it was a whole community approach. it was about social mobilization. it was saying don't talk about the about things of ebola. talk about the good and positive things we could do to protect people in neighborhoods and communities from ebola. they brought everyone in. i had the church leaders, i had the army, the navy, the air force, the airport authority, the port authority. i'm sitting in a room and i'm saying where do you work? well, i'm with the funeral services. wow, they inviteded you guys here. because if an ebola patient dies you have to teach us what to do. they're in the room. and so suddenly we're talking to so many different people and hey've got everyone on evidence-based guidelines. they didn't change those guidelines. once we taught something, we kept everything standardized and we reinforced it. the hospital health care staff has the basic skills. we ha

other thing that i'm really concerned about, when i came back and, again, all my team from the elizabeth r. griffin foundation, we put ourselves under 21 days of observation talking to each other. but i didn't want to have to go into the emergency department and sit next to the child with the broken arm if i had developed a fever and body aches and early signs of ebola. >> i have the same questions. i'm still within my 21 days. i'm only seven days out. and so i do wonder, what if i develop symptoms, what am i supposed to do? where am i supposed to go? i certainly don't want to show up at my family doctor's practice and say hey i just went to liberia and i've got a fever. it's not clear what you're supposed to do. >> i don't want to minimize the risks at stake for some here, but as a layperson, lacking the expertise of either of you, i say to myself, there is one known case. nobody has ever died in the united states as a result of ebola. i'm aware of the fact those two health care workers who returned to the united states have apparently made a recovery. and this is not exactly the sierra leone. so

skinner, at elizabeth r. griffinssistant professor of public health sciences at penn state. dr. gary, take a look at this. a tyvex suit i have here, protective masks. see it here. this type of equipment, it is reported, had gone up 131,000%. are we at a point now where private citizens, any private citizens should be buying equipment look this we are showing? >> absolutely not. the, the -- ebola patient in dallas is contained. his contacts are under close surveillance. we will rapidly find any person that may come down with ebola virus symptoms from contact with that patient. so, the broad swath of america has nothing to worry about from ebola at this time. >> okay. so, should be, maybe, keeping their money for other things now. dr. mcgregor skinner, do we need high-tech equipment to battle ebola? are many of the most effective techniques much more basic than that? >> the, the equipment that we have to prevent transmission of the virus, among health care staff, hospital workers, physici physicians, auxiliary staff. y

infectious disease expert with the elizabeth r. griffin foundation. doctor, i also just want to note some of your other history, because i think it's very interesting. you recently returned from nigeria, where you were treating withnts on the ground ebola. previously you had worked in preventing and controlling pandemic influenza outbreaks. you also worked in helping 2004nt disease after the tsunami. you have an extensive background here in dealing with these outbreaks. so i'd like to get your thoughts, off the bat, about latest headlines we've heard out of the ebola .utbreak the glass officials have narrowed down to ten the list of who might be infected with ebola. we see the death toll worldwide is now over 3300. epidemic ining this the right way? >> that's a really good question. u.s. healthin the care system wonderful trained andth care staff, both paid voluntary. not just including doctors and the auxiliary staff, administration staff. what we really have at the is a type of approach to controlling ebola. the cdc in the center. and then we have a