Ebola-Infected Nurse Exposes Huge Cracks In Spanish Healthcare System…(Not. Going. To. End. Well…)
Kevin Loria
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 8, 2014
Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero thinks she touched her face with a contaminated glove while removing the protective suit she wore while caring for missionary Manuel García Viejo, according to a report in El País.
She also says that she found out that she was sick with Ebola and not some other illness by checking the news on her cell phone.
“I suspected it because the last time they came into the room wearing white suits, I asked the doctor for my test results but he didn’t give me an answer. I looked and my phone and saw that I had tested positive for Ebola,” she said in Spanish in an interview.
Germán Ramírez, chief of internal medicine at Hospital La Paz has reconstructed the chain of events with Romero a few times and says that the accidental touch almost certainly occurred after Romero had been cleaning García Viejo’s room, and that the nursing assistant simply couldn’t recall what had happened when questioned about it at first.
Further, since she wasn’t isolated immediately after feeling sick and was at first told by her family doctor to just take aspirin and wait, there’s a chance she could have passed the virus on to someone else.
The Rest…HERE
