Apparently this is a health worker at the hospital who was treating a priest that was flown in with it? She was not a Spanish aid worker in Africa who came to Spain for care.
In the news article is stated:
“Colleagues last night expressed their surprise at news that the nurse, from Galicia in northwest Spain, had contracted the virus, saying that there had been ‘extreme’ measures in place to protect hospital staff.”
Even with extreme measures she caught it. Do you think as this virus spreads, and let’s say has turned airborne, it will become less lethal? I heard there’s a possibility but I don’t know what to think really.
We know they use extreme measures in general, but we know nothing about her specific practices.
I listen to Spanish radio, and this morning they said that person in question was a nurse’s aide, actually, and not a nurse. She only entered the room of the missionary twice, once just to check on him - and once after he had died, when she had to help clean out the room (remove the sheets, etc.). So probably during that process, she came into contact with soiled bedding or some other article.
She seems to have been suited up appropriately, and right now, although she says she followed all the procedures, didn’t have a torn glove or anything like that, they believe that she must have slipped up somewhere along the line and touched something contaminated.
The other people in the hospital now are her husband, one of her coworkers, and someone who arrived from Africa; none of them have been diagnosed with ebola yet, although I think the coworker has a fever. The other two are in isolation because of close contact with her or, in the case of the African, with somebody else who had ebola.
I don’t think it’s airborne, but it does seem as if it might be easier to get than people think. I wonder also if there are different strains of it, some more aggressive than others?