If Ebola Strikes New York, At Least One Company's Ready for Clean-Up

Cleaning up after an Ebola patient is complicated and dangerous, but if the virus strikes in New York, at least one company says it's ready. The Biorecovery Corporation — the same company that removed Anthrax-tainted mail from New York City office buildings a decade ago — has gotten the federal government to green-light its plan to transport potentially-infected materials to an incineration facility to be destroyed. So far, the company has only had false alarms.

"You have a child throw up in a high school right now and there are people thinking it's Ebola," said Sal Pane, the company's Chief Safety Officer.

But Pane says if the company gets a real Ebola call, his cleaning team is prepared to take every precaution, including quarantining themselves for at least three to five days following the incident.

Updated Dec. 7, 2014: A report in Buzzfeed exposed that the subject of this article, Sal Pane, had been convicted of mortgage fraud. Hear On The Media’s conversation about it here.