Posted on 10/08/2014 9:57:50 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Three more health workers in Spain have been admitted to hospital for monitoring for Ebola, including two doctors who had contact with a nurse infected with the disease.
The third new patient is a nurse who had contact with one of the two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola after being repatriated from west Africa for treatment.
"He is showing symptoms and a test has been carried out but we have not received the result yet," said a spokesman for the Madrid hospital.
Meanwhile, two people who had previously been under observation in hospital have been cleared of the disease and discharged.
In total, there are therefore seven people isolated in the Madrid hospital La Paz-Carlos III - the three new patients, the infected nurse, her husband and two other nurses.
The infected nurse, identified by Spanish media as Teresa Romero, had cared for the two elderly missionaries who died from the virus.
Officials say they are monitoring as a precaution about 50 other people, mostly health staff, who had been in contact with the infected nurse.
Earlier on Wednesday, Health Minister Ana Mato said there were no signs any of the woman's coworkers had also become infected.
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...
Yeah, but that’s Spain, FR’s very own ex-spurts insist it can’t happen here!
There are several curious things going on with the Spain episode. First, the hospital that they chose to bring this priest into (imported back into Spain)...did not have the capabilities prescribed by most health authorities. It’s hard to say if incompetent political figures grasped that, or just wanted to throw the dice.
Second, there is some perception that right-leaning political parties are using the episode to feed an anti-immigrant political stance. The signs at the protest yesterday? It looked awful planned to me.
Third, it took around twelve hours for the authorities to issue the order to sanitize the nurse’s place. Part of the order also covered killing the nurse’s dog, which provoked a lot of hostile feelings. No one has said anything about this crossing over and being an animal threat, so this is an entirely new angle of the mess.
Wow, and we thought Dallas looked bad, the West better get up to speed because you can bet the Muslim world is watching this and wondering if bioweapon attacks would be the best plan.
These seven were contagious two days after becoming infected.
That Spain situation has been bugging me from day one, something seems not right over there.
It won’t take too many health care workers/providers getting sick to paralyze us. Then it really gets out of hand.
It will if the medical people continue to believe that it is hard to catch, and you must have direct physical contact, and continue to use inadequate protection gear.
Even with the right gear, they need to have adequate deconamination procedures prior to taking off the gear, and even then they need to be very careful.
You mean that the police tape and screen combo failed to thwart this virus. Too bad, since that was probably Frieden’s back-up plan.
If a dog can be a carrier without getting sick from ebola, and thirty per cent of humans get well after having it, then humans can possibly be carriers of ebola too, without being ill.
Health care workers will start raising hell soon. Some nurses are already speaking out.
Flights arriving from Spain ???? WHO WILL BE CHECKING THEM??
“Health care workers will start raising hell soon. Some nurses are already speaking out.”
They SHOULD....
They were lied to.
Yahoo News Aug 11, 2014
Ebola risk in Spain is ‘almost zero’: WHO
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization said on Monday that the risk of contagion from the Ebola virus in Spain was “almost zero” and described the repatriation of an infected Spanish priest as “correct”.
Speaking to Spanish TV channel Cuatro, WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl said that “many” Spanish health workers were well-trained to deal with any possible Ebola cases.
He reassured Spaniards that the WHO and Spain’s Ministry of Health, Social Security and Equality were following international protocols to remain in “constant contact”.
Referring to the recent repatriation of Ebola-infected priest Miguel Pajares and nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe, who is not infected but has been admitted to hospital as a precaution, he said: “We have seen how the two people from religious orders were correctly received in Spain. “
“We have just started a new phase and we need a little time but in Spain there are many people trained to deal with these cases,” he added.
Hartl’s comments come after a number of medical professionals slammed Spain’s “improvised” preparations for the repatriation of Miguel Pajares.
http://www.thelocal.es/20140811/who-ebola-contagion-risk-in-spain-is-almost-zero
Nonsense statement.
animals more commonly transfer it to people.
Rarely if ever except for bush meat.
Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention - IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE (Freak Out)
From Jurassic Park:
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.
Thanks for that info.
The MSM is complicit in keeping the real truth on this from coming out. All the proper protocols on containment have been violated. It’s an intentional release. IMO
You’re right.
Microbes don’t care which host they use. They don’t pick and choose. They take what’s readily available.
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