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COURT: DOG BELONGING TO NURSE WITH EBOLA
MUST DIE
We're learning that the two Ebola patients receiving care in the U.S.
Tuesday, October 07, 2014 05:54PM
Health officials in Spain rushed to contain the Ebola virus
Tuesday after it escaped Europe's defenses, quarantining four people
at a Madrid hospital where a nursing assistant got infected and even
getting a court order to kill the woman's dog.
The woman, who had been on vacation in the Madrid area after treating
a priest, was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday after coming down with
a fever, and was said to be stable Tuesday. Her husband also was
isolated as a precaution. Another quarantined nurse tested negative,
but a man who traveled in Nigeria remained in isolation.
Madrid's regional government even got a court order to euthanize and
incinerate their pet, Excalibur, against the couple's objections, without
even testing the animal. A government statement said "available
scientific information" provides no guarantee that infected dogs can't
transmit the virus to humans.
The nursing assistant in Madrid was part of a special team caring for a
Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month after being evacuated
from Sierra Leone. The nursing assistant wore a hazmat suit both
times she entered the priest's room, officials said, and no records
point to any accidental exposure to the virus, which spreads through
direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sickened person.
Medical officials in the United States, meanwhile, are retraining
hospital staff and fine-tuning infection control procedures after the
mishandling of a critically ill Liberian man in Texas, who might have
exposed many others to the virus after being sent away by a hospital.
In Africa, the U.S. military was preparing to open a 25-bed mobile
hospital catering to health care workers with Ebola, before building a
total of 17 promised 100-bed Ebola Treatment Units in Liberia. The
virus has taken an especially devastating toll on health care workers,
sickening or killing more than 370 in the hardest-hit countries of
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where doctors and nurses were
already in short supply.
And as the disease moved from a seemingly distant continent to the
doorsteps of the world's largest economies, government leaders faced
growing pressure to ramp up responses. Spanish opposition parties
called for the resignation of Health Minister Ana Mato, and the
European Union demanded answers to what went wrong.
Obama administration spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that
more passenger screening measures would be announced "in the next
couple of days," even though the White House remains "confident in
the screening measures that are currently in place."
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COURT: DOG BELONGING TO NURSE WITH EBOLA
MUST DIE
We're learning that the two Ebola patients receiving care in the U.S.
Tuesday, October 07, 2014 05:54PM
Health officials in Spain rushed to contain the Ebola virus
Tuesday after it escaped Europe's defenses, quarantining four people
at a Madrid hospital where a nursing assistant got infected and even
getting a court order to kill the woman's dog.
The woman, who had been on vacation in the Madrid area after treating
a priest, was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday after coming down with
a fever, and was said to be stable Tuesday. Her husband also was
isolated as a precaution. Another quarantined nurse tested negative,
but a man who traveled in Nigeria remained in isolation.
Madrid's regional government even got a court order to euthanize and
incinerate their pet, Excalibur, against the couple's objections, without
even testing the animal. A government statement said "available
scientific information" provides no guarantee that infected dogs can't
transmit the virus to humans.
The nursing assistant in Madrid was part of a special team caring for a
Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month after being evacuated
from Sierra Leone. The nursing assistant wore a hazmat suit both
times she entered the priest's room, officials said, and no records
point to any accidental exposure to the virus, which spreads through
direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sickened person.
Medical officials in the United States, meanwhile, are retraining
hospital staff and fine-tuning infection control procedures after the
mishandling of a critically ill Liberian man in Texas, who might have
exposed many others to the virus after being sent away by a hospital.
In Africa, the U.S. military was preparing to open a 25-bed mobile
hospital catering to health care workers with Ebola, before building a
total of 17 promised 100-bed Ebola Treatment Units in Liberia. The
virus has taken an especially devastating toll on health care workers,
sickening or killing more than 370 in the hardest-hit countries of
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where doctors and nurses were
already in short supply.
And as the disease moved from a seemingly distant continent to the
doorsteps of the world's largest economies, government leaders faced
growing pressure to ramp up responses. Spanish opposition parties
called for the resignation of Health Minister Ana Mato, and the
European Union demanded answers to what went wrong.
Obama administration spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that
more passenger screening measures would be announced "in the next
couple of days," even though the White House remains "confident in
the screening measures that are currently in place."
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