Spain has gone from complete confidence in its systems to public accusations that the nurses attending its two repatriated Ebola patients were not provided with Level 4 protective clothing.

However, the hospital’s health workers said that the suits worn to attend the priest and the missionary did not meet the necessary safety requirements, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported. The nurse should have worn fully waterproofed-clothing with biosafety level 4 and with breathing autonomy. However, the suit used had only biosafety level 2.

a positive pressure suit supplied with HEPA filtered breathing air. The breathing air systems must have redundant compressors, failure alarms and emergency backup.

The Obama administration announced it will task customs agents to stop Ebola at airports. But not everyone is reassured. Connecticut “Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed an order that gives the state’s public health commissioner the ability to quarantine anyone she believes may have been exposed to the Ebola virus”. Everywhere there are signs people have lost faith that “they” can keep us safe any more.