Male Strippers on Ebola Nurse Flight Self-Quarantine

Apparently, male strippers now have a higher level of protocol for Ebola than the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. For when a couple of muscley bohunks realized they were on the same plane as the Ebola-infected Dallas nurse the CDC cleared for flying, they chose to put themselves in a 21-day quarantine, saying they bleached their clothes and all their luggage to boot.

The Daily Mail reports that male dancers and romance novel cover models Axl Goode and Taylor Cole were heading home from a convention outside Cleveland on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 on Monday, and were just a few seats from infected nurse Amber Vinson.

"If she was contagious on that flight, I was there with her in that space for three hours. I would rather keep my friends, family and other people safe by sacrificing the next three weeks and staying indoors in my apartment," said 26-year-old Goode.

Vinson had a low-grade fever and was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, and diagnosed with Ebola. She was then flown to a special isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Let's hope they put her on a private flight this time.

The two men were less than three feet from Vinson when they flew back to Texas, a Dallas County epidemiologist told them. Dallas public health officials say the CDC never told the healthcare workers who treated the first Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan not to fly -- but apparently, the CDC did give Vinson the okay to fly.

Now, Goode said he will hole up in his apartment through Nov. 3, a full three weeks after his possible exposure. Health officials tell him to take his temperature twice a day: once when he wakes up, and again six hours later.

"It's certainly horribly frightening," said Goode. "If you read about what happens to somebody with Ebola and how their body breaks down, it's a nightmare. It's a terrifying nightmare come to life."

Worried about the quarantine's impact on their busy pants-dropping schedule, the men have already set up a GoFundMe campaign to support them during that time. It has raised almost $3,000 of their $5,000 goal.