In the Netherlands at-risk patients go into isolation, and doctors who are carriers are sent home and can't return until they are cleared, says Margreet Vos, who heads infection control at Erasmus University Medical Center.
Amy Tenderich, chief patient advocate at Alliance Health, says that the sense of camaraderie helps patients break though the isolation that used to be hallmark of having a chronic illness.
Preventing the bacteria's spread has required doctors to take extreme care, putting all patients who are returning from the theater of war into isolation.