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SITUATION IN SPAIN WHERE A NURSE HAS BEEN HOSPITALISED FOR SUSPECTED EBOLA: THREE RELATED STORIES
Health workers attend a protest outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for the national health minister's resignation after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
ASSOCIATED PRESS OCT. 8, 2014
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and CIARAN GILES
MADRID (AP) - Spanish health officials were investigating Wednesday whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola got the deadly disease by touching her face with Ebola-tainted protective gloves, while a strike by Ebola burial teams in Sierra Leone left abandoned bodies in the streets of the capital.
More than 3,400 people have been killed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia hardest. The case of Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero has shown that health workers can contact Ebola even in highly sophisticated medical centers in Europe.
In Madrid, Dr. German Ramirez of the Carlos III hospital said Romero remembers she once touched her face with the gloves after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated.
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THE WASHINGTON POST OCT. 7, 2014
A vexing mystery in Spain: How did a nurse contract Ebola
The first case of Ebola transmission outside of West Africa has raised questions about how a nurse at a Spanish hospital contracted the virus and whether sufficient protocols were in place to protect health workers there.
The nurse became infected at Madrid's Carlos III hospital while treating Manuel Garcia Viejo, a priest who contracted the virus in West Africa. The woman, a "sanitary technician," entered Garcia Viejo's room only twice, according to Spanish officials.
In one case, she entered the room to change his diaper; another time, after he had died, she entered to collect his belongings, according to Mercedes Vinuesa Sebastian, Spain's public health director. Both times, the nurse wore personal protective equipment.
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Spain quarantines three more people
NEW YORK TIMES
MADRID — The Spanish health authorities said Thursday that three more people had been quarantined overnight in a Madrid hospital as Spain seeks to contain the risk of Ebola spreading from an auxiliary nurse who is Western Europe’s first case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/world/europe/ebola-spain-nurse-hospital.html?_r=0
Update: The nurse's condition worsens
The health of Ebola-stricken Spanish nurse Teresa Romero Ramos worsened on Thursday, and two doctors who treated her were admitted to a hospital for observation.
"Her clinical situation has deteriorated but I can't give any more information due to the express wishes of the patient," said Yolanda Fuentes of the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, according to Reuters.
The BBC reported that Ramos "was being helped with her breathing in hospital."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/09/as-spanish-ebola-patients-health-deteriorates-two-doctors-who-treated-her-are-under-observation/