Posted on 10/09/2014 8:01:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The health of a Spanish nurse with Ebola worsened on Thursday and four other people were put into isolation in Madrid, while the country’s government rejected claims its methods for dealing with the disease weren’t working and blamed human error.
SPAIN: SITUATION HAS ‘DETERIORATED’
Teresa Romero, 44, is the first person to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa, after becoming infected by a Spanish priest repatriated from Africa with the disease. In total seven people are in isolation, though only Romero has tested positive for Ebola. The others include the nurse’s husband and two doctors who cared for her. Three other people were released from the isolation unit late on Wednesday after testing negative.
A health official at the Carlos III Hospital where Romero is being treated said on Thursday: “Her clinical situation has deteriorated but I can’t give any more information due to the express wishes of the patient.”
The European Commission asked for an explanation of how Romero’s infection happened in a high-security ward.
German Ramirez, one of the doctors at the hospital where Romero is being treated, said on Wednesday she had told him she touched her face with her protective gloves.
On Thursday another doctor, who cared for Romero and is among those now in isolation, said the sleeves on the protective suit he wore while handling her had been too short. In a letter to healthcare authorities, published by national newspaper El Pais, the doctor detailed treating Romero during a grueling 16-hour shift during which he was not told she had the Ebola virus. He said he only learned of this via the press.
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Ping.
Curious, I missed mention of the other patients in Europe the last few weeks and months. Paris, Hamburg, and London each have a patient that was deemed cured. I wonder what treament(s) they were provided with. Was it ZMapp before it ran out?
Of Cause They just killed her dog.
Has the family filed a lawsuit yet?
Prayers for her and her family. Sad about her dog.
The French nurse was taking favipiravir:
Among other things:
http://news.yahoo.com/first-french-ebola-patient-leaves-hospital-144706059—finance.html
Thank you.
I don’t know a lot about ebola, so I’m serious in asking, was it necessary? Can animals and people pass it back and forth?
people got it from some kind of apes, which got it from fruit bats-——— so, I’m seeing an epizootic.
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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...
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I don't think it was necessary. Dogs do get Ebola--from eating corpses during outbreaks. They have never been shown to carry Ebola.
I wonder if the nurse took a turn for the worst after losing her precious dog--not from a natural cause, but from murder. Such a loss is difficult at the best of times, and she was not in a stable condition to begin with.
The dog could have been quarantined, if Spanish health officials were worried that it could have caught Ebola. No need to kill the poor beast.
We do not know if the ZMapp had anything to do with anyone's survival. We *do* know that supportive care, started early, can help to save lives.
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By the cure stats...it would seem W Africans would try and make it to the UK, Germany or France...rather than the US. There are likely more freebies here, than in those countries, though.
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