Posted on 10/07/2014 6:27:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
* Nurse who treated missionaries caught Ebola in Madrid
* Husband hospitalised but shows no Ebola symptoms so far
* Another health worker and a traveller hospitalised
* Health authorities say they are "revising protocols" (Adds new details, background)
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We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
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Welll, dang it, put airport screeners in charge of this mess. THEY don’t seem to be affected by Ebola.
"Despite being described by Spain's public health director as "a national jewel," the head of Spain's Nursing Council warns "something went wrong" in the health care system's protocols. As RT reports, Spanish health officials have 4 patients interned including infected initial nurse, her husband, and a 2nd nurse (male). Furthermore, 22 more possible Ebola cases are under surveillance having had direct contact with the infected nurse during her vacation after being infected (officials have said they 'don't know' how she became infected with the deadly virus). Images within the hospital show "irregularities" and make-shift isolation units and an insider account said "I do not want to create social alarm, but explain what is still a reality everyday for a few months of nursing staff at the ICU.". One researcher noted "air traffic is the driver.," and added ominously, "it's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky.""
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/07/spain-places-husband-ebola-nurse-in-quarantine/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/world/europe/ebola-spain/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/nurse-contracts-ebola-first-infection-outside-west-africa
Like it or not, we may have no choice but to impose a strict quarantine for anyone coming from western Africa. Especially when you consider the circa 70% fatality rate of Ebola.
“it’s just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky.”
How much more luckier are the rich and and their political cadre going to be than the ordinary Edward Ebola’s of the world.
I think this one is pretty definitely human error. The nurse’s aide (not a nurse, btw) who got it only saw the infected missionary twice: once just to look in and check on him, and once to help clean out the room (remove sheets, etc.) after he died. It was probably then that she came in contact with some contaminated object and for one reason or another was not adequately protected. (There is a suggestion, btw, that they were not using a high enough level of protective gear to begin with.)
But the really bad part is that she went on vacation immediately after his death. Fortunately, she didn’t travel out of Madrid but stayed in her neighborhood, Alcorcon. Towards the end of the week, she felt a little achey and when she developed a fever, she went to the hospital...but not back to Carlos III, where she worked and where the ebola patients had been kept, but to the Alcorcon general hospital. She sat in the waiting and treatment area with the other patients for about 4 hours, had her temperature taken by the nurses, etc.
What was she thinking of? Surely she must have realized that, with her exposure, it was very likely that she had ebola and she was contagious at that point. As soon as she revealed her contacts to the medical staff, they had her in isolation and immediately on her way to Carlos III. But a local general hospital like Alcorcon doesn’t even have a serious isolation unit or any of the equipment required, so now everybody who was at the hospital, especially the employees, is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Human error and stupidity...the thing that is truly unfixable and unpreventable.
As the story says, these new victims of the age of PC and reckless decision making caught it outside of Africa.
Here we go. Prepare now, before it is too late. Going to be hard to prevent the spread to every continent now. More victims of clueless government and careless actions. I hold government responsible.
The more victims there are, the higher the chance it mutates becoming more virulent, resistant, and deadlier.
Not just screeners ... customs officers!!!
All this death for nothing. Ebola should be in Africa. Obama’s actions are importing it to the rest of the world.
Actually that’s the official story.
The other story going around is that this nurse has presented herself for treatment several times but had low grade fever and was sent on her way. She had to repeatedly request to have an ebola test (probably rationed in spain due to NHS type budget restrictions) before they finally did one.
The other reason is that their gear wasn’t WHO standard for dealing with ebola:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/ebola-crisis-substandard-equipment-nurse-positive-spain
“Staff at the hospital told El País that the protective suits they were given did not meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, which specify that suits must be impermeable and include breathing apparatus.”
American Nurses are rightfully concerned about the lack of training, guidance and necessary personal gear and supplies to handle/treat suspected patients with Ebola.
Nurses stage Ebola ‘die-in’ on Las Vegas Strip.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/09/24/3318356_nurses-to-march-on-vegas-strip.html?rh=1
American Rns say that they are unprepared to handle ebola patients.
YES, silence is consent.
People dont understand that.
STAND UP for or against whatever! DONT shut up!
These incidents are evidence that Ebola is easier to contract than the conventional wisdom insists.
I’m under an air travel path to and from a major city in a tourist area of the West. There’s been nearly no air travel for several days.
Why do you think that is?
I don’t know for sure, but commercial air traffic over me has decreased much over the past week or so. It usually continues to be fairly heavy this time of year (probably commuters, conventions, etc.). I suspect that it has to do with news of the Ebola epidemic and Enterovirus-68.
I've quit flying forever, I believe.
I just checked flightradar24 for the Reno area — looks busy as ever to me.
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