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Merged So Ebola's back......

It appears that the man detained on a flight at Newark is not symptomatic for Ebola.
 
Here's one where a nurse's assistant treating Ebola patient(s?) has been infected in the developed world in a case where, allegedly, full PPE precautions were being observed:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29514920

This would be the first case of Ebola being contracted in Spain (rather than imported).
 
cosmicaug said:
Here's one where a nurse's assistant treating Ebola patient(s?) has been infected in the developed world in a case where, allegedly, full PPE precautions were being observed:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29514920

This would be the first case of Ebola being contracted in Spain (rather than imported).
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Given that Ebola is more transmissible than HIV and that's been transmitted to medical staff it's not that surprising.
 
cosmicaug said:
No, there has been at least one.
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There were three; Nadezhda Makovetskaya and Antonina Presnyakova in the USSR and the 1976 case of Geoffrey Platt who was infected at Porton Down in the UK. They're discussed in more detail from around post 20 in this thread.

Platt stuck himself on 05NOV1975 and took appropriate action, attempted to squeeze out blood and stuck his thumb into a bleach solution. He wasn't even sure if he had punctured the skin.
Six days later he started feeling unwell (nauseous and exhausted, he compare it to a flu/hangover combination) with abdominal pain later. Sensibly he called a specialist in the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases and his colleagues at Porton and he was admitted immediately to an isolation unit. Even in an isolation room, with airlocks, he was then put in an isolator tent under negative air pressure. The dosed him with interferon and went looking for blood serum from a survivor to supply antibodies.
Four days after admission (while on interferon but before serum was available) Platt’s temperature spiked and he started vomiting. He was apparently quite lucid and expecting to die prepared his will and other paperwork quite calmly.
Over the next four days he vomited and suffered severe diarrhea; he also showed the spreading rash noted in the African cases. He displayed signs of secondary infections (including a fungal growth in his throat that prevented him swallowing or talking) and his doctors believed his immune system was crashing. During this time the blood serum had been prepared and administered (though it's actual effectiveness wasn't known)
Eight days after admission he showed signs of improvement, his vomiting and diarrhea had ended.
Day ten saw the fungal infection diminish and the rash also.
Over the next week the virus disappeared from Platt's blood, urine, and feces (though not, oddly, from his semen). He was de-isolated after twenty days and released a couple of weeks later, minus more than ten kilos of body weight and most of his hair.
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Though in these cases those infected were biowarfare researchers infected by needle-stick. Only Platt survived infection.
 
catsmate1 said:
There were three; Nadezhda Makovetskaya and Antonina Presnyakova in the USSR and the 1976 case of Geoffrey Platt who was infected at Porton Down in the UK. They're discussed in more detail from around post 20 in this thread.



Though in these cases those infected were biowarfare researchers infected by needle-stick. Only Platt survived infection.
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I thought there were others (more specifically, I thought the account(s?) I had listened to or read about somewhere about this happening was a different one than the one I linked to) but I couldn't remember. I thought I might have been imagining it. Thanks!
 
A WHO advisor on Ebola, Peter Piot, has said he's not surprised by the infection of the nurse, Teresa Romero.
"The smallest mistake can be fatal," he said.

"For example, a very dangerous moment is when you come out of the isolation unit you take off your protective gear, you are full of sweat and so on."

Professor Piot also said he expected more cases in Europe and the USA.
 
catsmate1 said:
A WHO advisor on Ebola, Peter Piot, has said he's not surprised by the infection of the nurse, Teresa Romero.
"The smallest mistake can be fatal," he said.

"For example, a very dangerous moment is when you come out of the isolation unit you take off your protective gear, you are full of sweat and so on."

Professor Piot also said he expected more cases in Europe and the USA.
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I heard that clip on NPR and they gave a bit more context for that quote-- he was wiping his eyes to get sweat out of them, suggesting that's how being sweaty would lead to transmission.
 
volcano said:
I heard that clip on NPR and they gave a bit more context for that quote-- he was wiping his eyes to get sweat out of them, suggesting that's how being sweaty would lead to transmission.
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Yes, in one of the previous outbreaks tears/eye contact was a demonstrated medium of transmission.
 
jimbob said:
It looks a bit of a cockup all round:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/dallas-ebola-case-thomas-duncan-contacts.html
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As does the Spanish one - in fact that looks worse:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/spanish-ebola-nurse-symptoms-quarantine

A Spanish nurse who was admitted to hospital in Madrid with the Ebola virus, after treating a repatriated patient who later died of the illness, had told health authorities at least three times that she had a fever before she was placed in quarantine.

Teresa Romero Ramos is the first person in the current outbreak to have caught the virus outside of west Africa.

Her first contact with health authorities was on 30 September when she complained of a slight fever and fatigue. Romero Ramos called a specialised service dedicated to occupational risk at the Carlos III hospital where she worked and had treated an Ebola patient, said Antonio Alemany from the regional government of Madrid. But as the nurse’s fever had not reached 38.6C, she was advised to visit her local clinic where she was reportedly prescribed paracetamol.

Days later, according to El País newspaper, Romero Ramos called the hospital again to complain about her fever. No action was taken.
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Staggering

On arrival at the hospital, Romero Ramos warned staff that she feared she had contracted Ebola. Despite the warning, she remained in a bed in the emergency room while she waited for her test results. She was separated from other patients only by curtains, hospital staff said on Tuesday.
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cosmicaug said:
A big thing on Facebook right now is regarding how the patient's dog will be euthanized (I think it's already happened, actually) to preempt a possible source of contagion.
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That's way down my list of priorities.
 
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