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    Spain Warns "Something Went Wrong" As Suspected Ebola Cases Rise In Madrid

    Spain Warns "Something Went Wrong" As Suspected Ebola Cases Rise In Madrid

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/07/2014 08:44 -0400

    Despite being described by Spain's public health director as "a national jewel," the head of Spain's Nursing Council warns "something went wrong" in the health care system's protocols. As RT reports, Spanish health officials have 4 patients interned including infected initial nurse, her husband, and a 2nd nurse (male). Furthermore, 22 more possible Ebola cases are under surveillance having had direct contact with the infected nurse during her vacation after being infected (officials have said they 'don't know' how she became infected with the deadly virus). Images within the hospital show "irregularities" and make-shift isolation units and an insider account said "I do not want to create social alarm, but explain what is still a reality everyday for a few months of nursing staff at the ICU.". One researcher noted "air traffic is the driver.," and added ominously, "it's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."

    As RT reports,

    Health officials in Madrid say three more people are in the hospital on suspicion of contracting Ebola. The news comes a day after a nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a city hospital became infected with the disease.

    The nurse is now being treated with a drip using antibodies from those previously infected with the virus, Reuters reports. Approximately 22 contacts of the woman, often referred to as the 'Spanish Ebola nurse,' have been identified and are being monitored, Madrid health officials told a press conference on Tuesday.

    The officials added that the hospitalized include the nurse's husband, another health worker and a traveler who had spent time in one of he affected West African countries.
    Spanish authorities are struggling to explain the infection, as The Daily Mail reports

    "At the moment we are investigating the way in which the professional was infected," said Antonio Alemany, the head of Madrid's primary health care services.

    "We don't know yet what failed," he was quoted by the Guardian as saying. "We're investigating the mechanism of infection."

    Mercedes Vinuesa, the head of Spain's public health service, told parliament today that the nurse's husband had been placed in quarantine.
    And, as RT reports, in a similar vein to Dallas, it appears local hospitals were anything but prepared for this...

    Spanish authorities have come under increasing pressure to explain how the disease was able to spread in their hopital. While they say all proper protocols and procedure were followed while providing care to the deceased missionaries, reports to the contrary have surfaced.

    According to the Guardian, staff at the hospital said waste from the rooms of both patients had been carried out in the same elevator used by all personnel. The hospital was also reportedly not evacuated when the second patient, García Viejo, was taken in to receive treatment.

    Union workers also accused the government of providing hospital staff with adequate hazmat-suits.

    Some Spanish medical-worker representatives said the situation should prompt an overhaul of the procedures and facilities used to treat those afflicted with the virus.

    “Something went wrong,” Máximo Gonzalez Jurado, head of Spain’s General Nursing Council, told Spanish news agency EFE. “They need to establish if the protocol is correct or not correct so that a case like this, that never should have happened, doesn’t happen again.”
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    "Air traffic is the driver," warns Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston...predicting where the virus will spread...

    There is a 50 per cent chance a traveller carrying the disease could touch down in the UK by October 24, a team of U.S. researchers have predicted.

    Using Ebola spread patterns and airline traffic data they have calculated the odds of the virus spreading across the world.

    They estimate there is a 75 per cent chance Ebola will reach French shores by October 24.

    And Belgium has a 40 per cent chance of seeing the disease arrive on its territory, while Spain and Switzerland have lower risks of 14 per cent each.





    'It's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."
    * * *
    An insider whistle-blows on the weakness in Spanish anti-Ebola protocls (via Google Translate)

    I am a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital La Paz. The reason for addressing you.'s To inform the public the facts that have happened recently regarding the "Crisis of the Ebola virus" opinion. Do not want to create social alarm, but tell what is still a reality in everyday for a few months of nursing staff the ICU among which I include ago.
    Since the hospital was named La Paz as a reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in April 2014, the staff has been showing its disconfor to that measure and irregularities have been committing the direction of nursing the hospital as a whole. (See attachment Notification Judge).
    These irregularities summarize, focus on that:
    • The hospital does not have adequate infrastructure to enter patients affected with this type of disease (the famous isolation rooms with negative pressure).
    • The original protocols of the Ministry of Health were modified to fit like the gaps that had the hospital: If you do not have "negative pressure" we say "as far as is demonstrated airborne transmission is not necessary."
    • General (modified or not) protocols are not handed to staff for knowledge, nor were exposed at various meetings with management nursing.
    • As ICU care were demanding the implementation of specific protocols UCI (Today still not exist or at least personnel have not arrived)
    • Staff training requires the completion of courses and training to work in situations like this.
    • The Department of Preventive Medicine Hospital offers two informative talks (45 minutes) of such as personal protective equipment required. In those talks and the inexperience of the same staff that taught, costumes torn apart, replaced the shims for plastic bags, there were no complete SCUBA and coming to say more or less I had to do a hack to cover his face with masking tape.
    Without being solved any of these issues by the Department of the hospital, you will hanging out and communicating to staff that will be the Hospital of the defense "Gómez Ulla" who takes these emergencies but as it is in the process of reform to create appropriate facilities, until the month of October will remain referral hospital.
    ...
    Finally only remains to emphasize that in all this there is a lot of improvisation and a lot of reckless attitude of those who truly, really ... NOT going to be ahead of the virus at him in the face. Listen to those who are on the front line have something to say.
    * * *
    Un-contained...

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    Ebola Outbreak: Dozens Monitored In Spain

    More than 50 people are being monitored over fears they could be infected, as EU chiefs demand "clarification" from Madrid.


    09:10, UK, Wednesday 08 October 2014



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    A Madrid nurse who became the first person to contract ebola outside of Africa is being treated with antibodies from survivors of the illness, hospital officials have revealed.

    Four people, also including her husband, were placed in quarantine at the hospital over fears they may also have the deadly virus, although one of those individuals has now tested negative.
    The nurse was part of a medical team at the city's La Paz-Carlos III hospital that treated two Spanish missionaries who died shortly after returning from Africa with the disease.
    A second nurse who also helped treat an infected priest was among the four initially being monitored by health workers, as was a man who arrived on a flight from Nigeria displaying symptoms.
    Spain's health authorities said they had been in touch with a total of 22 people who are thought to have been in contact with the 40-year-old nurse, whose name has not been released.



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    They are also monitoring around 30 other members of the health care team that treated one of the missionaries.
    Officials added that although the nurse began a holiday after one of the missionaries she had been caring for died on 25 September, she did not leave Madrid during this time.
    She began feeling ill on 30 September and was diagnosed with ebola on Monday, but is in a stable condition.
    EU countries have demanded an explanation from Spain's health minister as to how the nurse caught the disease, despite all the precautions taken
    A spokesman said a letter sent to the health minister sought "to obtain some clarification" from Spanish authorities, adding: "The priority remains to find out what actually happened."
    Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, said an emergency protocol is in place and that authorities are working to establish the source of the contagion at the Madrid hospital.



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    "We are working to guarantee the safety of all citizens," she said.
    In the US, President Barack Obama says airport screening measures are being stepped up in the country to help identify people who might have the deadly virus.
    More than 3,400 people have died in the latest ebola outbreak, which has swept through West African countries Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
    Prime Minister David Cameron is due to chair a Cobra meeting tomorrow to discuss the UK's response to the crisis.
    "This is part of an ongoing series of Cobr meetings to coordinate the UK response that started in late July and has been in the diary for some time," a Downing Street spokesman said.
    Meanwhile, the British Army said more than 100 British Army medics were being sent to Sierra Leone to help tackle the ebola crisis within the next few weeks.



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    Personnel from the 22 Field Hospital have been undergoing an extensive training exercise in full protective suits, with simulated casualties in make-up.
    They will staff a field hospital set up specifically to treat medics who have caught the disease, not members of the general public.
    An Army spokeswoman said: "They are going through all their procedures and getting atuned to wearing their personal protective equipment, working in quite hot temperatures."
    Experts say quarantine systems in developed countries including the UK, US and Spain mean the disease is very unlikely to spread to the same extent seen in poor African countries.
    But the World Health Organisation's European director Zsuzsanna Jakab said some further infections in Europe are "unavoidable".
    "Such imported cases and similar events as have happened in Spain will happen also in the future, most likely," she said.
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    • The basic conditions make containing the disease very difficult.


    • Gallery: The Desperate Fight To Contain The Ebola Outbreak
      A man rests outside the clinic.


    • A woman is comforted after medical officials remove her husband, who is suspected of having the disease.


    • Officials try to prevent themselves from spreading the disease.


    • A local who has just brought his brother to the centre. He had to rely on plastic bags tied around his hands to try to protect himself.


    • A man thought to be infected with ebola waits for treatment.


    • Patients wait to be seen by medical staff.


    • Workers try to decontaminate themselves.


    • A worker with a child who may have caught ebola.


    • A make-shift hand-washing station in Monrovia.


    • Decontaminated boots of medical staff.


    • The basic conditions make containing the disease very difficult.


    • Gallery: The Desperate Fight To Contain The Ebola Outbreak
      A man rests outside the clinic.



    "It is quite unavoidable ... that such incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around."
    Travel firms appear to have already suffered amid the outbreak, with shares in airline group IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia, down 6.5%.
    Carnival Cruises are down 5.6%, Easyjet have fallen by 4.7% and Tui Travel by 3.2%.

    http://news.sky.com/story/1348716/eb...tored-in-spain
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