A Spanish nurse has been confirmed to have contracted ebola, after treating a Spanish priest at the end of September. She was working in a facility especially designed by Spain to handle ebola patients and (the facility) had treated another Spanish priest back in August. They are not sure how the nurse contracted ebola. She had entered the patient's room twice: once while he was still alive, and once after his death. After his death, the nurse went on vacation. She had a fever for several days while on vacation before being isolated. She is 44 years old and married with no children. There is no confirmation of how many people she had contact with.
The nurse told that she would have made a mistake when taking off the protective suit.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/10/08/inenglish/1412773314_084887.htmlAccording to news here, medical staff received little training on the protocol of protection. When doctors and nurses are taking off their suits, the protocol says that someone has to be monitoring they are following the process correctly.
Sadly, Teresa Romero's condition worsened after a slight improvement.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/10/09/inenglish/1412862488_584997.htmlTeresa Romero was being administered hyperimmune serum from a noon called Paciencia Melgar, who survived the virus in Liberia while working with the Spanish missionary Miguel Pajares died on August 12. The noon wasn't evacuated to Spain, despite her religious order asked the government to do so, because she isn't a Spanish citizen. Symptomatic, even though our government isn't worse than other western world administrations in that regard.
The Spanish government has established a crisis cabinet presided by Deputy PM Soraya Sáez de Santamaría, after the minister of Healthcare Ana Mato was bashed by media and opposition because of her disastrous communication policy (and negligence, according to some)
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