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2014-10-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Deputy who had contact with Dallas Ebola patient shows symptoms
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Posted by Steve White 2014-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Ebola in Spain isn't turning out all that different:
Spaniards Report Botched Ebola Crisis Response

Spain Isolates 4 More, Puts 52 Under Observation...

The infected nurse, partially named as 44-year old María Teresa, married but with no children, is in a stable condition in isolation at the Carlos III, where she was transferred in the early hours of the morning in a convoy of ambulances accompanied by police outriders.

The three most immediate cases are the infected nurse’s husband, an intensive care nurse who worked with her and a Spanish engineer just back from Nigeria. The 52 others under observation are 22 people the nurse came into contact with at the Alcorcón Hospital and 30 healthcare workers from the Carlos III Hospital.

The coordinator of the Health Ministry’s Healthcare Emergencies & Alerts Centre, Fernando Simón, admitted today that given the infected nurse had formed part of the treatment team for both Spanish missionaries repatriated from Africa, it would have been a better idea to admit her to hospital when she first complained of symptoms on September 30, instead of waiting until October 6.

Diario Enfermero (Nursing Daily) spoke to healthcare workers and posted the photo that accompanies this article, widely shared on Spanish social media, of the botched “Ebola isolation measures” in the Alcorcón Hospital where the nurse was initially admitted, reporting that until the Ebola test came back positive: “staff were caring for her without any kind of protection” behind just a screen door: “she was like that for hours”.

“Before being admitted to Alcorcón, this nursing assistant went straight to the Carlos III Hospital, but they didn’t see her there, telling her to go to her reference hospital and that she would be sent back if she tested positive. She was going round in circles.”

Nurses and hospital porters told the newspaper that they had no idea of what the treatment protocol was supposed to be and that a strict control of those who had come into contact with the infected nurse was not being carried out: “They’ve just gone home, that’s it. They have only told them to take their own temperature. We are mad”.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2014-10-09 00:08||   2014-10-09 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 What a goat hump that is. This thing is going to get completely out of control.
Posted by Injun Ulomoque8628 2014-10-09 02:43||   2014-10-09 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if he was on traffic detail in the interim?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-09 02:46||   2014-10-09 02:46|| Front Page Top

#4 How long does it take to draw a little blood and stain it and get it under a microscope, or however else you test for Ebola??
Posted by AlanC 2014-10-09 06:59||   2014-10-09 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 No, grom, this deputy was a guy that usually works for the JP's (Justice of the Peace) office serving papers, i.e. writs, summons, notice to appear, etc.
He gets paper to be served at the precinct courthouse from the clerks, takes it to whoever, and says "you have been served." The only people who know how many duty stops he's made will be the court, and that will have to be tracked by his paperwork. Then there's the matter of the court clerk's office...
Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-09 07:23||   2014-10-09 07:23|| Front Page Top

#6 And the fact the urgent-care center he went to is in Bobby's home town. But he only had some of the reference symptoms. On the other hand, he was not one of those identified for further observation - 48 individuals, I think - who had "contact" with (recently deceased) Thomas Duncan.
Posted by Bobby 2014-10-09 07:41||   2014-10-09 07:41|| Front Page Top

#7 He gets paper to be served at the precinct courthouse from the clerks, takes it to whoever, and says "you have been served."

In Dallas, Deputies sit on the service road on Stemmons Freeway and other freeways, race up the entrance ramps and ticket speeders. The Dallas County Sheriffs Department.

They use these high speed interceptors for that.

They also work calls along side the Dallas Police. That is why he was in the apartment. They are in full contact with people all day long. Question is, was he in quarantine?
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-09 11:08||   2014-10-09 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 In other words, serving papers is just one of their jobs. He was serving papers at Duncan's apartment. However, the rest of the day he could be heading over to a freeway a few blocks over to radar for speeders.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-09 11:13||   2014-10-09 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Before he died, Patient Zero denied he had knowingly contacted a Liberian Ebola patient before he traveled to the USA. Dallas Morning News:
Some authorities have accused Duncan of hiding his attempt to help to a pregnant woman dying of Ebola, just days before he left Liberia. But Duncan mistook the woman’s symptoms for a miscarriage, [family friend Saymendy Lloyd] said.

The clinic Duncan brought her to may have missed the symptoms too. “She did not have diarrhea, was not torn up, was not bleeding from anywhere,” Lloyd said. “The doctors took blood samples from her and told her she could go.”

The woman was buried with a standard funeral — not cremated, as Duncan’s remains will be. By the time her blood tests revealed Ebola, Duncan was hospitalized in Dallas, Lloyd said.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2014-10-09 11:36||   2014-10-09 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 AlanC (#4)
How long does it take to draw a little blood and stain it and get it under a microscope, or however else you test for Ebola??

Ebola test results negative for Dallas County deputy
Just before 3 p.m. Thursday, state health officials announced that all results had come back negative for the virus.
Posted by Chuck 2014-10-09 19:23||   2014-10-09 19:23|| Front Page Top

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