‘Protective clothing doesn’t work against Ebola’: Outrage grows after Spanish nurse caught disease DESPITE wearing a safety suit – and WHO now warns more cases in Europe are ‘unavoidable’
Quarantines come after authorities traced nurses’ contacts
Unnamed nurse was part of team that treated Manuel Garcia Viejo
Spanish missionary was brought back from Africa last month for treatment
Officials say they ‘don’t know’ how his nurse became infected with the virus
But unnamed medics claimed their gear did not meet WHO standards
Medical teams in Norway treating their first Ebola victim who returned today
She is a doctor who had been working MSF in West Africa
By Damien Gayle and Lizzie Parry and Stephanie Linning
DaiyMailUK
7 October 2014
Anger was growing in Spain today over how a nurse became infected with Ebola as it was claimed the protective suits given to health officials were not good enough.
Four suspected Ebola patients are now in hospital in Madrid after the nurse was confirmed as the first person to catch the virus outside of West Africa.
The escalation in Spain’s Ebola outbreak comes as officials revealed 30 people were being monitored for symptoms, including the woman’s husband.
It has also since emerged that a week before she tested positive for Ebola she had contacted health workers to complain of a fever and fatigue, telling them she had helped treat two priests who contracted Ebola in Africa and were repatriated to Spain.
But it wasn’t until she went to her local hospital on Monday that she was finally admitted and tested for the virus.
It is not the same hospital where she worked, raising questions over the number of people she has come into contact with.
Meanwhile the World Health Organisation warned that it is ‘unavoidable’ more cases will be diagnosed in Europe.
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