Spanish priest hospitalized in Madrid with Ebola symptoms

Reuters via The Star ^ | 17 Oct 2014 | Reporting by Andres Gonzalez, writing by Sarah White; Editing by Julien Toyer

[11th_VA]

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish priest who worked in Africa has been taken to hospital in Madrid with symptoms of Ebola, a hospital source said on Thursday.

The priest had been in Liberia and had been in contact there with people infected with Ebola, El Mundo newspaper reported, adding he was hospitalized on Thursday after developing a fever of over 37.6 degrees Celsius.

He was in the same religious order as two other Spanish priests who were repatriated from West Africa in recent weeks with the disease, and who later died in Madrid, the newspaper said.

[dragonblustar]

Pray for those infected.

[DCBryan1]

I think they are 2/2 dead Spanish priest in Madrid. RIP for hard work. Good luck to this new one and the nurse(s).

[VanDeKoik]

This idiot knew he was working with Ebola patients, but he just comes back to Spain and sits around until now.

If you go deal with these people, learn to %@$^& phone home and alert people of this so that you aren’t just potentially infecting other people!

These folks volunteering to go to these places are starting to become my least favorite humans.

[Don Corleone]

But..but..but the Messiah Obola says not to worry. What to do? What to do?

[eizverson22]

I hope to really be able to have the drug can control and cure this disease.

[Yossarian]

These folks volunteering to go to these places are starting to become my least favorite humans.

The folks volunteering to go to these hot zones are some of my most favorite humans.

The subset of those who just "come back", rather than

1. quarantine-in-place,
2. in AFRICA,
3. for 60 days (NOT 21)

to wait and see if any symptoms show up before returning home...
...are some of my least favorite humans.

[ZULU]

Totally agree with you.
ITS DISGUSTING.

[Tucker39]

If you’re going to post this foreign news stuff, please convert foreign temps to Farenheit. 37°C means nothing to me. Is he suffering from hypothermia? 37° sounds COLD.

Do what they did for old King David...find a couple of warm young senoritas and put them in bed with him. What?! The senoritas will be in biohazard gear? Oh, never mind.

[BigEdLB]

37.6C = 99.7F

[jim_trent]

Nothing to worry about. He didn’t get on a bus.

[11th_VA]

Thanks Big Ed

[steve86]

There are several drugs — being developed in different countries — with great promise for treatment. Vaccination against the disease does not seem to be quite so far along.

[steve86]

37°C means nothing to me.

Why not?

[Tucker39]

I don’t do Celsius. In my simple, uncomplicated life, and as a common, non-scientific American, my thermal references are all in the Farenheit scale.

[Smokin' Joe]

Was 10/17 the published date? Seems prophetic...

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

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Bring Out Your Dead

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...

[Salvation]

Prayers for this priest.

[Salvation]

This is a priest. Ministering to the sick is among his duties.

God bless him.