Posted on 10/06/2014 11:56:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
A nurse's assistant in Spain is the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa in the current outbreak.
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato announced Monday that a test confirmed the assistant has the virus.
She had helped treat a Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in West Africa.
The missionary died after returning to Spain.
The news came amid growing fears in the United States that the disease could spread.
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Obama is bumming. He wanted the US to be first.
I read that his kidneys are gone, so I don’t think Duncan is going to make it.
But the overall health is important - he looked fat and healthy in the photos - so who knows. He may survive and live hooked up to a kidney machine at our expense for the rest of his life.
That said, I don’t think anybody realized how serious this was. Maybe the Spanish hospital where this missionary was treated (he was the second missionary to be brought back) didn’t have strict protocols in place simply because it was such an unknown thing, or maybe the nurse didn’t believe what she was told.
But Spain has improved abruptly since finding a sick African woman at a Madrid bus station. While she turned out not to have Ebola, I think it made them realize that it could hit the general population at any time (they have a lot of African immigrants, mostly illegal), so I think things will be different in the future.
I’d like to see us develop some serious protocols for dealing with this in hospital and also some border procedures that make sense (mostly, banning travel originating in infected areas unless the people are willing to undergo quarantine). Last week’s CDC performance was for to laugh...well, it would have been if it hadn’t been so dangerous.
This was a different missionary. Pajares was the first missionary to be brought in.
The nurse treated the second missionary, who only came in a few weeks ago. Both missionaries died, although they were elderly and thus more vulnerable, and I think the first one delayed in getting treatment.
Miquel Pajares was the first one. The second one was a Spanish priest named Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died on September 25.
Yep. I was confused by the reporting. The second victim was a Priest and was not described as a missionary. That was on September 25. This thing is a mess.
Got it. Thanks.
A nursing assistant is the first case of Ebola infection in Europe. The health worker was part of the team that attended the missionary Manuel García Viejo, who died of Ebola on 26 September at the hospital Carlos III de Madrid (currently seconded to La Paz). She went to the hospital in Alcorcón when she felt fever. Both analyzes of the woman have tested positive, according to the Ministry of Health, whose cabinet crisis is met. Minister Ana Mato, in an extraordinary appearance before reporters, said that the protocol was “immediately activated to assist the patient and ensure the safety of health workers who treats and citizens.” “We are working to verify the source of infection”, said the minister.
Looks like different missionary.
Yes, it’s confusing. The interesting thing is that the first priest was treated with ZMapp. He died anyway, but he was not a great candidate as a “model patient” because he was in his seventies, hadn’t asked for treatment right away, and then had to wait to be evacuated to Spain, which took some time (photos of people in the suits wheeling him in from the plane, etc.).
The second missionary didn’t receive ZMapp because Spain didn’t have any more stock of it. He died, but he might have died with or without ZMapp because he was older and probably not somebody who had spent a lot of time tending to his personal health.
So I am wondering if perhaps whatever they used on him didn’t kill the virus entirely.
The virus that causes Ebola spreads only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person who is showing symptoms.
Spanish authorities said they were investigating how the nurse became infected at a hospital with modern health care facilities and special equipment for handling cases of deadly viruses.
It is becoming apparent that for some instances of the disease, those contacting it have done so in spite of conforming to all the protocols currently in place (hazmat suits, gloves, booties, disinfectant use, etc.). Therefore it has to be concluded that in some instances, the virus is airborne, maybe in moisture from breath, or present in moisture in high humidity atmospheres.
If it was me——off with the ventilator.
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“It is becoming apparent that for some instances of the disease, those contacting it have done so in spite of conforming to all the protocols currently in place (hazmat suits, gloves, booties, disinfectant use, etc.). Therefore it has to be concluded that in some instances, the virus is airborne, maybe in moisture from breath, or present in moisture in high humidity atmospheres.”
Ebola is only 1 micron long so of course it’s airborne. However more disturbing is presumably nurse and all of the staff were suited up with advanced PPE and containment for the occasion and she still was infected.
All those things no doubt help, but she was young and in good health to begin with, so her chances were better.
If this gets going in the US , it will probably be among the “homeless” and some inner city areas, where sanitation, personal habits, living conditions are about at poor, non-educated African level.
Good God, the poor tech who had to vent that viral factory. . .. (shudder at the mere thought.)
CDC and whoever their chain of command is regarding our Government and reporting seems to have tried to warn this none-attentive administration early on last year. So its no wonder we're in the state we're in. Now CDC is trying to play catch up....and no way will Obama take the fall for "not listening" when they were told about this before.
Once this crisis dies down I really don't see this administration doing anything but paying 'lip service' regarding the borders or the medical community. They've talked a big talk on everything else and failed to deliver...so I think agencies will basically have to determine how urgent they will see this in the future and plan accordingly without this Gov. for the most part.
I’m not familiar with what’s happening in Spain except that it’s there and reports about here and there. But not paying attention too much in how they’re dealing with it.
We can hate the Spanish, can’t we? They did bring the Mexicans to this hemisphere...
Human error is always possible. But lack of procedures on the part of what is theoretically the most important disease control agency in the world is a massive failure.
You’ll be happy to know that, while Ebola was simmering away in Africa and spreading every day, the CDC was devoting itself to warning about automobile accidents, apparently a major priority. I’m not discounting the importance of that, and yes, the highway death toll is way too high, but bad driving or even drunk driving is not a disease.
Similarly, we don’t have a Surgeon General, who should theoretically be in public informing people, because Obama’s noneties have flaked out and his nominees have been politically correct fruitcakes whose main “health” concern is gun control. The current acting SG is somebody named Boris Lushniak. Have you heard of him? Thought not. Me neither.
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