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

[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.

[palmer]

yep.

[grania]

What's it going to do to health care costs for paying customers and the insured now that hospitals are going to have to give top-rate, expensive care to non-paying patients (including still-allowed recent arrivals from Ebola-infected areas) with flu symptoms? And then, as you said, the lawsuit situation could get weird in the US.

[Arthur McGowan]

Ebola seems to cause incredible stupidity in health care workers.

[Old Yeller]

Well, I've never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music...
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it;
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it.

[hummingbird]

"Just take ten Islamo-crazies deliberately infecting themselves, coming to the US, and traveling around, consciously visiting shopping malls, roadside/interstate restaurants, spreading their deadly germs. Applying bits of their saliva on every door, every table, every elevator button around. All before they get too incapacitated and finally succumb."

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I know we are in the land of the conspiracy here but if you (and I) think what you posted is possible, you can be sure the "jihadees" have thought of it, too.

They don't have to infect themselves - all they have to do is get someone else infected and set them free on US - we have the proper open borders and no real security on air flights.

[DownInFlames]

At 50k per patient, start doing the math.