Ebola update: Teresa still 'serious but stable' and will be treated with ZMapp
Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 8:13 PM
MADRID nurse Teresa Romero is due to be treated with the experimental serum ZMapp after a supply was imported into Spain.
The same drug cured doctor Kent Brantly in the USA, but failed to save missionary Miguel Pajares and by the time Manuel García Viejo was repatriated to Madrid, supplies worldwide had run out.
Teresa's condition is said to be 'serious but stable' and the virus has not spread any further, claims the Carlos III hospital where she is held in isolation.
Reports in the early hours of this morning stated that she was in a 'very critical' condition and that her organs were failing.
Teresa is on an artificial breathing machine due to lung problems, revealed her brother yesterday.
José Ramón Romero Ramos said in a TV interview that there was little hope.
"Is there a chance? It's possible, but the doctor says there's not much hope, it's very complicated at the moment," he told a Galicia TV station mid-afternoon yesterday.
Head of the regional nurses' union Elvira González confirms José Ramón's claims, although the Carlos III hospital has denied this.
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