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    Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain

    It's getting closer. Wonder who else she has been in contact with before the diagnoses, and who the 'contacted' have been in contact with and so on.

    And our government thinks ISIS is the bigger worry...



    BBC News - Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain

    Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain

    6 October 2014 Last updated at 18:57 GMT
    Aid workers and doctors transfer Manuel Garcia Viejo, a Spanish priest who was diagnosed with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, from a military plane to an ambulance near Madrid, Spain, on 22 September 2014Manuel Garcia Viejo was transferred to Spain from Sierra Leone but died days later
    The Spanish health minister has confirmed that a nurse who treated a victim of Ebola in Madrid has tested positive for the disease.

    The nurse is said to be the first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa.

    Health Minister Ana Mato said the woman was part of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of the virus on 25 September.

    Some 3,400 people have died in the outbreak - mostly in West Africa.

    The Spanish nurse is in a stable condition, Reuters quoted health officials as saying. She started to feel ill last week when she was on holiday.

    The nurse was admitted to hospital in Alcorcon, near Madrid, on Monday morning with a high fever, Ms Mato said.

    Doctors isolated the emergency treatment room.

    The infection was confirmed by two tests, the minister said.

    File photo of Manuel Garcia Viejo at San Juan de Dios hospital in Lusar, Sierra LeoneManuel Garcia Viejo, seen in a file photo, was the second Spanish priest to be repatriated from Africa with Ebola
    Manuel Garcia Viejo died in the hospital Carlos III de Madrid after catching Ebola in Sierra Leone.

    Another Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares, died in August after contracting the virus in Liberia.

    Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has the virus and the only way to stop an outbreak is to isolate those who are infected.

    There have been nearly 7,500 confirmed infections worldwide, with officials saying the figure is likely to be much higher in reality.

    Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been hardest hit.

    Celebrations in West Africa for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha are being badly affected by the Ebola outbreak, with many public places deserted this weekend.

    Earlier health officials said people arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports.

    But the White House said on Monday it was not considering a ban on travellers from such countries, according to Reuters news agency.

    It comes as the US tries to limit the spread from its first confirmed case, a Liberian in Dallas.

    Thomas Duncan's condition is critical but stable, Reuters quoted doctors in the state of Texas as saying on Monday.

    Ebola virus disease (EVD)
    Ebola virus
    Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
    Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva
    Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%
    Incubation period is two to 21 days
    There is no proven vaccine or cure
    Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
    Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

    #2
    Lax immigration controls and the magnet of free healthcare means its probably already here.

    Given the death rate in some of our glorious NHS hospitals would anyone actually notice the odd case or two ebola anyway?

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      #3
      Post your favourite outbreak movie !

      The Andromeda Strain
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbSpnlOOtE

      Meticulous adaptation of the Michael Crichton book.

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        #4
        and I was lampooned by some on the forum for suggesting SAA were being irresponsible for flying passengers in and out of infected countries. Oh no they said, western countries wont let it in, they are far too advanced dont be so stupid, they told me!

        Hate to say it, actually no I dont...TOLD YOU SO!

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          #5
          A lot of overreaction about this Ebola "outbreak"
          On a daily basis more people die of Malaria than all Ebola victims added together

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            #6
            Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
            A lot of overreaction about this Ebola "outbreak"
            On a daily basis more people die of Malaria than all Ebola victims added together
            yes but fortunately the specific type of Mosquitos that transmit Malaria dont generally hop on plans and infect other countries. Ebola is indiscriminate regarding climate or conditions from which to culture and Malaria is not an infectious disease. There are no parallels between the two.
            Last edited by smalldog; 7 October 2014, 10:49.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
              A lot of overreaction about this Ebola "outbreak"
              On a daily basis more people die of Malaria than all Ebola victims added together
              so far, it needs to get a hold in a city or two and mutate slightly so its more contagious and you will be surprised.
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #8
                Originally posted by smalldog View Post
                yes but fortunately the specific type of Mosquitos dont generally hop on plans and infect other countries. That is not an answer to the risk this poses.
                And if they could, they can't survive for very long over the majority of the planet's surface.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by vetran View Post
                  so far, it needs to get a hold in a city or two and mutate slightly so its more contagious and you will be surprised.
                  What I find most scary about the latest piece of news is that up until now, the death toll amongst the healthcare workers has been put down to inadequate equipment and training. What happened here?

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                    #10
                    I'm going to Barcelona for a week at the end of this month, I hope this scares a lot of people off going. The queues at la Sagrada Familia can be horrendous.
                    I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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