“In fact, [biomedical researcher Lisa] Hensley did have a date lined up that night, a first date with a man she didn’t know very well. Finally, she phoned him and asked if he wouldn’t mind putting off the date, since she had just had a potential exposure to Ebola virus.
“He was very understanding.”
Richard Preston in his frightening book, The Demon in the Freezer (2002).
Ms. Hensley was fine. The potential exposure had been through an accidental cut in two layers of gloves with children’s scissors (real scissors are not permitted in Level 4 biocontainment).