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In reply to the discussion: Nurse in Madrid tests positive for ebola [View all]uppityperson
(116,005 posts)31. Your link says she had earlier treated another priest with ebola but outside incubation period.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/spanish-nurse-first-person-contract-ebola-outside-africa-n219581
Edited as I misread the month as Sept, not Aug.
Health authorities said the nurse earlier had also helped treat another priest, Miguel Pajares, 75, who had been working in Liberia when he was afflicted with Ebola. He was airlifted back to Spain on Aug. 7 and died five days later.
"We are working to verify the exact source of contact to see if all strict protocols were followed," Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato said at a news conference on Monday.
Thirty health-care workers who came into contact with the nurse will now be under observation for 21 days, Spanish health officials said. They are also working to compile a list of people the unnamed nurse may have interacted with outside of the hospital.
"We are working to verify the exact source of contact to see if all strict protocols were followed," Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato said at a news conference on Monday.
Thirty health-care workers who came into contact with the nurse will now be under observation for 21 days, Spanish health officials said. They are also working to compile a list of people the unnamed nurse may have interacted with outside of the hospital.
Edited as I misread the month as Sept, not Aug.
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You're unclear, but it's actually quite clear how someone could contract Ebola
Cali_Democrat
Oct 2014
#11
Well, the CDC lists someone in the room (three feet) for a prolonged period without PPE
Yo_Mama
Oct 2014
#14
It's hard to believe that the staff who first met the Ebola patient inside the "bubble,"
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#25
Your link says she had earlier treated another priest with ebola but outside incubation period.
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#31
Yes, outside the incubation period. So she must have gotten it from one of her two contacts
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#35
I misread the other's month so edited. It will be interesting to see what they trace back
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#38
nope. don't know. don't know what your inane snark has to do with this story. fail.
cali
Oct 2014
#6
she did, her only symptom was a slightly elevated temp. she checked in immediately and apparently
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#68
Deutschewelle is reporting she felt ill for "several days" before she went to a hospital.
suffragette
Oct 2014
#67
It's hard to believe that the staff that met the missionary when he was in his "bubble,"
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#28
Horrifying breach of recommendations. She has low risk exposure, presumably,
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#27
"first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa"
riversedge
Oct 2014
#30
Uh, yes it is. Tell the folks in West Africa it isn't and then get back to us.
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#79
I disagree. We are special. we have the education and the infrastructure...where we should spend..
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#88
I have thought that Friedman's calm, deliberate reassurances seemed a bit forced this
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#48
He thinks it may have been from body fluids (blood likely since ebola patients leak) in a car...
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#59
he was spraying water and trying to clean the inside of the car. actually it was quite likely blood
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#61
