Ebola update: Another nurse and two doctors admitted for Ebola tests
Thursday, October 9, 2014 @ 6:21 PM
TWO medics who treated the Madrid nurse infected with the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic virus have been placed in isolation at the Carlos III hospital.
They have been joined by another nurse who treated the two missionaries, Manuel García Viejo and Miguel Pajares, who is awaiting results of tests to find out whether he is suffering from the disease.
Whilst none of the patients has shown symptoms or a body temperature of 38.6ºC or above – the cut-off point before a person thought to be at risk of infection is taken into isolation – anyone who has been near the three confirmed Ebola sufferers in Spain are being monitored.
Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, from Galicia and living in Alcorcón (Madrid) was in contact with García Viejo once when he was alive, to change his sheets and incontinence pad.
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