Ebola Outbreak: Spanish Missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo Dies of Deadly Virus in Madrid

International Business Times ^ | 9/26/2014 | Jack Moore

[markomalley]

The Spanish missionary who was flown home to Madrid from Sierra Leone after contracting the Ebola virus has died, according to hospital sources.

According to the Spanish news agency Efe, Manuel Garcia Viejo died from the disease at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid.

Viejo was a medical director of the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios and was working in the western Sierra Leonean city of Lunsar when he caught the disease.

He was flown to Madrid in an isolation chamber by military plane and received by doctors in fully protective biohazard suits.

Viejo is the second Spanish priest to die of the Ebola virus in the space of a month, after Miguel Pajares died after being flown back to Spain from Liberia.

The Ebola outbreak, the worst in history, has killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa.

The deadly virus, which is spread via contact with infected body fluids, has spread to Liberia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that if no effective measures were taken to stop the outbreak,between 550,000 and 1.4 million people could contract the Ebola virus by January 2015 in Sierra Leone and Liberia alone.

According to the World Health Organization, around £614m is needed to prevent the outbreak from turning into a human catastrophe.

[Morpheus2009]

So people coming home to the developed world can still die. Doesn’t sound too good, but does shed some light on how fortunate those who have survived are.

[Josa]

The progressives working hard to spread this disease to the western world

[RegulatorCountry]

Flying him home might have been the most rational and compassionate thing from the standpoint of medical treatment, but was it somewhat questionable as far as preventing spread of contagion? Hard question.

[Morpheus2009]

The progressives? I have never seen a more lazy, incompetent bunch of idiots in my life. The real idiots are those who vote so hyperpartisan that they don’t realize that their own heads are jammed up their own @$%. It won’t likely go to the Western World given the existing measures, but all their sending to help is the equivalent of sending a gallon of water to over a thousand people. It won’t be anywhere near enough to significantly lower the disease.

[Bobalu]

A very sad end for such a good man :-(

“Greater love hath no man than to give his life for......”

[Popman]

Considering how deadly ebola is...moving infected people to areas clean of ebola seems like a really bad idea....

One mistake, one error, one time can lead to a pandemic....

Not worth it in my book....

[exDemMom]

So people coming home to the developed world can still die.

I read an interview with a doctor who has treated many Ebola patients during outbreaks. Even with good care, many still die. The best hope for survival is to have top-notch care, but that is no guarantee.

This is actually true of many infectious diseases. Patient genetics and health status both contribute to outcome.

[exDemMom]

Flying him home might have been the most rational and compassionate thing from the standpoint of medical treatment, but was it somewhat questionable as far as preventing spread of contagion? Hard question.

Given that Ebola is not very contagious--it requires direct contact with infected bodily fluids--flying known patients home in an aircraft equipped for that purpose is not a factor in spreading disease. OTOH, the people who don't know they have Ebola and become symptomatic with vomiting and diarrhea during a long flight might pose an infection risk.

[Caipirabob]

Spain is a ruin of a nation per my understanding. I don’t think we can judge what they are capable medically by any standard we would accept.

[PghBaldy]

We don’t know his age or health condition before he became sick either.

[Tax-chick]

Manuel Garcia Viejo

He was old.

[Vendome]

Ole’!

[PghBaldy]

Same day as this news, another American is released and feels great! The news headlines about this young American seemed almost sickly farcical, considering the devastation that is going on in Africa.

[XEHRpa]

progressives? ... the equivalent of sending a gallon of water to over a thousand people.

Yes, but they will feel so self-righteously good about themselves.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Popman:" Considering how deadly ebola is...moving infected people to areas clean of ebola seems like a really bad idea....
One mistake, one error, one time can lead to a pandemic.... Not worth it in my book...."

That is why pResident OBola is sending 3000 American troops over there to set up medical health facilities.
Those 3000 troops will go over there , and return, hopefully healthy .
Again , leading from behind with too little , too late , after he was shamed into it..
and risking the health of the American population upon the troops return.

[Nip]

“Top notch care.”

You have just identified the choke point when it comes to treating large numbers of infected Ebola patents.

The care, even unsuccessful care, given to Ebola patents that have been medically evacuated from the infection zone is not, and will not, be available on a routine basis. The numbers required to treat a single patent make it impossible to treat hundreds or thousands of patents at the same time. Don’t even think about treating the latest projected numbers for January 2015.

To the medical professionals on the frontline in this fight against Ebola that is a heart breaking fact. I am amazed at their daily determination.

But, sooner or later, the rest of the world is going to have to face the unpleasant realities I mentioned above. The medical term triage comes to mind. But with a mortality rate of 50 to 75 percent how do you accomplish triage and still provide supportive care for the few will survive?

And one final, very political and morbid, thought. how will managed health care programs handle the issue?

[peteyd]

You would think he would send over medical professionals ,preferably from the Govn’t, to handle this, instead of the military.

[SisterK]

Two ebola deaths in Spain. Prayers up for those who cared for them in their last weeks.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...