Posted on 10/08/2014 10:13:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A doctor treating the Spanish nurse's assistant who's the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa in the current outbreak said Wednesday that she may have been exposed while removing her protective suit.
Dr. German Ramirez said the woman, who is in isolation at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, had told him it was possible that she might have had contact with the suit -- possibly the gloves -- on her face.
"That's what we were working on -- on the errors possibly made while removing the protective suit," he told reporters outside the hospital.
"I've spoken to her three times, and she has authorized me to give this information."
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Spanish Nurses Union is going bananas over this. The "isolation unit" of the hospital the priests were taken to was a regular room with police tape on the door.
Meanwhile, Spain has hospitalized 3 more people suspected to have contracted Ebola, while still trying to find people the nurse may have come in contact with.
Sounds like it’s air borne. If so, we are in deep shite. The infection rate has just jumped from 1.87 to 3.0. If that trend continues, we will hit the 1B infectied mark by June 2015.
What part about “contact” is not clear...
it would seem to make sense for personnel to try to disinfect the surface of the protective suits (with bleach, etc.) before disrobing from them.
Our Gov. is treating this disease like AIDS - hard to transmit unless you have direct intentional exchange of body fluids.
But this disease is more like the cold virus in that it transmits very easy from surfaces, airborne via a sneeze (riding on small droplets expelled from the body). And to make things worse, the symptoms create massive copies of the virus exploding from every opening of the body!
One tiny slip where you get just ONE VIRUS PARTICLE on your hands or into your nose/mouth and you now face a horrible organ-dissolving eye bleeding nightmare death and you have about a 40% chance of living if you are lucky.
We need to be treating this as the scary outbreak that it is!! Seal the borders NOW. Send help to Africa in the form of teams building field hospital/quarantine zones to help these third world *hitholes get it under control. I hate sending people there but it is in everyone’s interest to contain this thing in Africa and get it under control.
That entire hospital is infected now. Stupid apes
The headline is 180 degrees off the actual statement in the first sentence...
No argument here!
Not likely. It will go airborne in Africa if it goes airborne anywhere and we will see the spike if that happens.
The infection rate has just jumped from 1.87 to 3.0
Infection rates are averages. A victim could infect 50 people or zero people. So far in the US the infection rate is zero.
It’s not airborne. Now, actually, she’s admitting that she did touch her face when taking off her suit. There’s supposed to be someone else watching when they remove their suits, but I think she was alone at the time, from what they’ve said.
It also turns out that the sequence of events and hospital visits is different from the first account (given by her husband). She’s apparently doing well and is able to be interviewed now (at least by the doctors). All of the other people recently put in isolation have tested negative.
BTW, she received a serum made from the blood of a patient who had recovered from it, a missionary nun in Africa.
Guess yer gonna have to burn the bio/haz suits off, just to be safe...
I wonder if our ISIS buddies are bottling this up in test tubes so they can spread it around where they see fit? With so many infections around Africa, access to a single body is all that is needed.
FYI
They want to surround/cover it with super gels and bury the stuff and probably keep the viruses alive for decades in our garbage dumps.
I’m guessing they weren’t sprayed down with chlorine solution like the MSF teams are...
That’s a critical missed step if true.
They are really trying hard to avoid using the A-word, aren’t they?
Viruses mutate.
Correct. The article states, though, that contact with the virus is suspected in this case.
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