Dallas, October 18 (RHC), -- With two nurses suffering from Ebola in the United States, concern has been raised that hospitals are not adequately protecting workers from Ebola.  According to the union National Nurses United, 76 percent of 2,000 nurses surveyed said their hospitals had not communicated any policy to them regarding admission of potentially infected patients.

The nurses' union has threatened to picket hospitals if nurses are not given protections including Hazmat suits and hands-on training.

In other news, a U.S. health official says an Ebola vaccine would likely be ready if it were not for budget cuts.  Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, told reporters: "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine."