Ebola update: Teresa 'conscious and talking to medical staff' and now 'stable', but still 'serious'
Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 6:19 PM
NURSE Teresa Romero, the first person to catch Ebola outside of Africa, is 'slightly better' after a touch-and-go night between late Thursday and the early hours of Friday when she was reported to be on a life support machine and her organs starting to fail.
By around 05.00hrs on Friday, reports claimed her situation was 'very critical' and her life in 'serious danger', but by 09.00hrs she was said to be 'serious but stable'.
It is believed the virus has been contained within her body and not spread, partly with the help of blood from Equatorial Guinea-born Spanish nun, Sister Paciencia, who survived Ebola with nothing but prayers and paracetamol to treat her as she was left to die in a 'pre-morgue ward' in a Liberia hospital.
ZMapp and a very similar drug, ZMAb, have been brought in and are also being used to treat Teresa.
She is now said to be conscious and 'talking to staff', although she is not out of the woods yet and although stable, is still said to be in a serious state.
Another 17 people have been admitted to isolation wards at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, the country's only specialist unit for treating infectious and tropical diseases.
Some have attended voluntarily, including doctors and nurses who treated missionary doctor Manuel García Viejo, repatriated from Sierra Leone, who died in September.
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