Posted on 10/06/2014 12:12:54 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
- Doctors Without Borders confirms that one of our organization’s Norwegian field workers in Sierra Leone has tested positive and has been diagnosed with bleeding fever ebola, confirms Anne Cecilie Kalteborn in MSF’s Norway branch to Norwegian media VG.
The Norwegian health worker is tonight being flown with an ambulance flight from the capital Sierra Leone. She will probably land in Norway Monday night or Tuesday night.
- We are working to transport our colleague home as soon as possible, says Kaltebotn.
The woman, who has been working for MSF in Sierra Leone’s second city Bo, has according to VG’s sources been feeling increasingly ill during the weekend.
When the symptoms of Ebola, fever and sickness, were felt, she was put in isolation and lab-tests proved she was infected.
- This is a situation we take very seriously, says the Norwegian Foreign Department.
The woman will be flown to Oslo’s main hospital, Ullevål, were a full team of doctor’s are ready to receive her.
Bo is a district in Sierra Leone that is badly hit by the epidemic: 227 suspected cases are reported in the area were the Norwegian woman was infected.
Obama’s Fault!!
/snort
Now this is scary.
She got infected while treating the dying priest in Spain.
They knew that he had Ebola. So she should have been following the protocols.
Yet she gets Ebola.
“MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish nurse who treated a priest in Madrid who died of Ebola is suspected to be the first case of the disease contracted outside West Africa, media in Spain reported on Monday, citing sources within the country’s health authorities.
Spanish newspaper El Pais and radio Cadena Ser were among those who said the nurse had tested positive for Ebola in initial tests and officials were awaiting final results.
No one was immediately available in Madrid’s health department to confirm the reports.”
>following “protocol”
Makes one wonder what these young men and women do in their off time. How much “direct injection” are some getting from the local natives?
Either that or the “Protocol” is horribly insufficeint...
I can’t imagine that the Spanish nurse who got infected in Spain was boinking the Spanish missionary they were treating there for ebola.
I could be wrong though.
What about the cleaning crew that cleaned up her apartment? And, what about the spectacularly stupid county executive who spent 45 minutes in the car with these people transporting them to a new abode?
If none of these people are infected it would be amazing.
Don’t we have about 15 of the 21 days left?
The Spanish nurse got it from treating a Spanish missionary brought back to Madrid. Two Spanish missionaries got it and they both were brought back to Spain and died. They were both elderly, however, and the first one had delayed in getting care.
The patient treated by the nurse was a little younger (in his 60s instead of his 70s) and had been diagnosed earlier. However, Spain had no ZMapp because they had already used the available stock on the first patient and evidently there was no more available anywhere in Europe (probably reserved for prime ministers and heads of state all over the continent...).
So they treated him with something else, but one has to wonder if it wasn’t effective and the virus wasn’t entirely killed. The US doctor who was treated in Nebraska with a non ZMapp drug was checked in with similar symptoms yesterday to a hospital in DC, as if he had had a relapse.
He may have something entirely different, including a common cold, but I think there’s a lot that’s not known about this yet.
The nurse is in a "stable" condition, according to officials. She reportedly started feeling sick on September 30. The patient whom she had been treating had died on September 25. Missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo had been helping Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.
In addition to the nurse and Viejo, Spain has had one other case, making it the third in the country. Another missionary, Miguel Pajares contracted the disease after working in Liberia. Pajares also died.
The 44-year-old woman is the first person to actually contract the disease outside of West Africa. Other cases in Spain – or more recently, the US – have been the result of individuals contracting the disease on the African continent and then traveling abroad.
Interesting, Ebola seems a lot like canine Parvo Virus, what do you think?
Parvo affects dogs of all ages, but most cases occur in puppies 6 to 20 weeks of age.
Following an incubation period that averages four to five days, the acute illness begins with depression, vomiting, and diarrhea. Some dog have no fever, while others have high fever (up to 106°F, 41.1°C). Pups with severe abdominal pain exhibit a tucked-up abdomen. Diarrhea is profuse and contains mucus and/or blood. Dehydration develops rapidly
More good questions and probably few if any answers.
Thanks for that clarification.
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Similar symptoms, yes.
Both nasty little critters.
Don’t know if it is the same women, but I read an article earlier today posted somewhere on FR, that a woman who had treated the man that returned to Spain with Ebola had been infected.
IIRC, he was flown back to Spain for treatment, so the protocols should have been followed there too.
“Don’t we have about 15 of the 21 days left?”
Yes, and no where is “21” carved in stone. There are incidences running longer.
I don’t think anybody who has it is up to “boinking” anybody...or likely to be a desirable candidate for boinking. Especially an elderly missionary.
However, these were early cases. Look at how badly the US did last week when we got our first case. We looked like a clown show.
The protocols put into place in handling the nurse were actually developed some weeks ago when they found a sick African woman in a bus station in Madrid. She turned out not to have Ebola, thankfully, but they obviously are ready to deal with it now.
I was in Spain in August, sitting in the plaza in a remote small city, and an African woman suddenly started to throw up. I doubt that she had Ebola, because she was well dressed and her 12-ish daughter, who was with her, spoke Spanish well, but everybody in the entire plaza froze and stared at her. A police officer came out of a nearby building and called for emergency services. I didn’t stick around to stare, but when I passed by later, I saw the sanitation department washing down the street with bleach.
They weren’t very well protected, but I suspect they’ve improved since then. I hope we improve, too. I was not only a little scared by the ineptitude in Dallas, I was seriously embarrassed by it, and the entire international press seems to be laughing at us now.
Can't wait to here the "reassure the public" spiel in tonight's news.
It was the same unfortunate woman/RN.
Reading between the lines, she should have been following protocols.
Something went wrong.
Apparently, she was living at her home after the priest died, and who knows who has been exposed via her.
Here’s the article regarding the case in Spain - she was not in the hot zone it appears she got it from the patient she was treating that was brought in from the hot zone.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211961/posts
Trying to keep up and still have some degree of accuracy.
I've been saying for awhile that Ebola is probably already in the US, but the ptb weren't going to say anything until they encountered a case that presented a danger of spreading.
hmmmm...........
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