Hospital: Condition Of Spanish Nurse With Ebola Is Deteriorating
by Scott Neuman
NPR.org
October 09, 2014
Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET
Hospital officials in Spain are saying that the condition of a nurse quarantined with Ebola has worsened.
Yolanda Fuentes, an official at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, says of Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos: “Her clinical situation has deteriorated but I can’t give any more information due to the express wishes of the patient.”
Romero, 44, was admitted to the hospital earlier this week. Health officials say she may have became infected through contact with a contaminated glove she was using in the treatment of an Ebola patient, who later died.
The latest news comes a day after the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, a 42-year-old Liberian man who was being treated for the disease in Dallas. It also follows an announcement from Washington that screening of passengers arriving from West Africa at five major U.S. airports would be stepped up.
As we reported Wednesday, new screening measures for the disease will go into effect at JFK in New York, New Jersey’s Newark, Chicago’s O’Hare airport, Washington Dulles and Atlanta’s Hartsfield airport. The White House says 94 percent of all travelers arriving in the U.S. from the worst Ebola-affected countries — Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea — arrive via those five airports.
Reuters says: “The new airport screening will begin on Saturday at New York’s JFK International Airport and then expand to Dulles and the international airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark.”
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