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Hospital worker: Spaniard exposed in ER for 8 hours after positive Ebola test
CNN ^ | 10-9-2014 | By Greg Botelho, Laura Smith-Spark and Laura Perez Maestro

Posted on 10/08/2014 10:05:37 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Teresa Romero Ramos sought out help three times.

Finally, one week after first seeing a doctor, Romero found out why she felt so sick: She had Ebola.

Even after her Ebola test came back positive at Madrid's Alcorcon hospital, Romero had to wait.

According to a worker at that hospital, Romero lay in the emergency room -- exposed to other patients as well as medical staff, going back and forth -- for eight hours before being transferred to a hospital in the Spanish capital that specializes in infectious diseases.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ebola; ohcrap; pandemic; spain
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To: dayglored

They may infect one of their own bring him to Europe, draw blood from him, store/freeze it, let him die, then bury the body. Depending on how much blood they got from Mr. Muhammad Derka, they could continuously infect hundreds.


21 posted on 10/08/2014 10:37:49 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Kozak

Wow.


22 posted on 10/08/2014 10:38:38 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: greene66

I don’t even think it would take islamocrazies to do this.

I think any number of our own citizens would also do this for an number of reason.

People are bat sh!t crazy, man.


23 posted on 10/08/2014 10:47:37 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: pepsionice

But onto a bigger issue. There are only ten hospitals in the US which have level-4 capability. You can figure that once you get past three-hundred patients...our system is then maxed out.”

In Seattle, the news announced a couple days ago that Harborview Hospital would be accepting Obola patients. Are they a Level 4 hospital? It is the big emergency hospital, but there are a lot of Somalis always waiting for free treatment. So I suppose we could fly in a Spanish person and then infect the Nigerians who are always there. Kind of ironic, really.


24 posted on 10/08/2014 10:51:02 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: dayglored
I think what is happening is DENIAL. Really, who the hell wants to admit they're infected and going to die horribly?

I shouldn't make light of the tragedy of ebola… but I will. Imagine using just the threat of it to your advantage. Walk in a dangerous neighborhood and when the thugs try to rob you, cough horribly and tell them you think you have ebola - they'll leave you alone. Got people crowding you and bumping into you? Cough horribly and say "my damn ebola is getting to me". Heck, I don't think a swat team will converge on you - nobody wants close contact with a possibly infected person.

25 posted on 10/08/2014 10:53:09 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: 353FMG

Countries like China and Russia will not allow it to spread.

They will prevent the disease from spreading by shooting ebola victims.”

Remember how Castro stopped AIDs in Cuba by locking up all the infected in camps? And still he remains a hero to the socialists and gays just as the feminists can side with the Islamists.


26 posted on 10/08/2014 10:54:00 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Dallas59

Absolutely. I was also thinking about all the little 7-11s and truck-stops along the interstates. Terrorists dabbing some snot/saliva onto the door-handles of all those coolers full of drinks. Cross-country highway travelers that wind up catching and carrying and disbursing Ebola all across the country to their home destinations. Ten days, and sick people EVERYWHERE, none remotely imagining they are coming down with anything more than the initial stages of a flu, but transmitting it to their entire surroundings... small towns, big cities, remote rural communities, etc.


27 posted on 10/08/2014 11:03:33 PM PDT by greene66
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To: tcrlaf

This is from today at Dallas' THPH with their potential second Ebola patient. They should be well practiced in Level 4 protocol. Note to the doctor/nurse's hubby - no neck hickies for the wife tonight.

28 posted on 10/08/2014 11:06:03 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: pepsionice

CDC is not recommending level 4. Currently they recommend droplet and contact precautions, something that can be done at any hospital. Any hospital in the US that gets an Ebola patient will likely keep them.


29 posted on 10/08/2014 11:31:58 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: tcrlaf

I finished up a week in the hospital last Monday PM. Got a sense that the hospital folks are sweating this. I had Fox news playing in my room. Staff members kept slipping in to watch TV with me instead of Oprah next door.


30 posted on 10/08/2014 11:34:38 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: angry elephant
Harborview Hospital would be accepting Obola patients. Are they a Level 4 hospital?

No and neither is Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. But, hey, no worries. It's not likely Ebola will ever come to the US....

31 posted on 10/08/2014 11:36:50 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

That’s a big man there.....


32 posted on 10/08/2014 11:39:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: bgill

I’m not as concerned that one individual didn’t understand that she needed to cover her skin, all of it including her neck, as I am over the fact that others saw that and allowed her to go in with a patient exhibiting Ebola symptoms with skin exposed in that manner. We’re not talking individual oversight or ignorance, that’s getting systemic. Not good.


33 posted on 10/08/2014 11:51:00 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Good point.


34 posted on 10/09/2014 12:09:42 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

... and in the very same hospital that handled Duncan. You’d think they’d all have been drilled on suiting up. It’s very discouraging to see this stuff.


35 posted on 10/09/2014 12:18:37 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

This is from a CDC training drill. The dude with the disinfectant spray might as well be those guys in the Dallas apartment parking lot.

More stupidity on parade while bringing in the NBC journalist.

36 posted on 10/09/2014 12:27:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

What are these people thinking? They’re not. We’ve had several scares and it’s still happening?


37 posted on 10/09/2014 12:33:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bgill

Reminds me of a prank show that had heavily PPE suited workers working on an environmental cleanup. You would not believe how many people just walked up the work in curiosity.


38 posted on 10/09/2014 12:34:56 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Now, now, you know Ebola is nothing more than a hangnail. Nothing to worry about. obola will have your back. Now, off to nighty-night and sweet dreams.

sigh....


39 posted on 10/09/2014 12:37:45 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: greene66
Just take ten Islamo-crazies deliberately infecting themselves

They aren't that stupid. They will infect their wives then draw their blood and spread the virus with diluted blood.

40 posted on 10/09/2014 2:24:16 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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