A total of 84 people are under observation for having been in contact with the last religious sick with Ebola, Manuel García Viejo, or for having a more or less close contact with the sick assistant, Teresa Romero Ramos, as has Fernando reported Wednesday Simon, director of the Center for Coordination and the Ministry of Health Alerts.
Of these 84 people under observation 30 are doctors and medical personnel present in the attention given to García Viejo and 54 are people who have been in contact with the assistant , these include the husband, Javier Limón, the primary care physician who treated her when Teresa began to feel sick and health that accompanied the patient in the ambulance that moved from home to hospital Alcorcon. Also, as confirmed Javier Rodríguez, Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, two hairdressers, “because after going to the doctor for the first time went to the salon and were plucking”.
However, according to Rodriguez, “all these people are under control” and has said that it has instructed the temperature twice a day are taken, and recalled that the fever is considered risk is 38.6.
“The 30 contacts are not real but given the situation will remain the same case. Neither of these contacts has shown any symptoms. Tracking that is being given per protocol, track 21 days, “said Simon.
As for the number of contacts that Teresa has had during their holidays, is not a closed number , and says this expert, are only identified up to yesterday later. “I do not think they’re going to identify new, but it could be.”
The five contacts increased risk has been assistant “are her husband, the primary care physician and three ambulance . Y although all the other [84 total] are in active follow these it pays attention to them very carefully. ”
In addition, there are other suspected cases are incorporated into the list and are admitted pending rule out infection. One is A Nurse Hospital La Paz of Madrid was working this morning at the hospital and has been isolated in the Hospital Carlos III as a precaution against a possible Ebola infection by introducing a low-grade fever, according to reported hospital sources. This was part of the health professional team attended repatriated by Spanish missionaries spread of Ebola. The Minister of Health in Madrid, Javier Rodriguez, said that was negative.
Last night, other auxiliary nursing care team who treated the priests entered the hospital Carlos III of Madrid also have a low-grade fever . The auxiliary part of the medical team who treated the Spanish missionaries repatriated. This auxiliary has also tested negative in the test to see if he was infected by the disease.
The husband of the auxiliary ebola is also under observation in the hospital and is asymptomatic, although it is not considered suspicious but contact case. There is a Spanish engineer from Nigeria and a nurse who had exposure to the virus during treatment missionaries who tested negative for Ebola analysis.
As summed Yolanda Fuentes, deputy medical director of La Paz , “with the man who came from Nigeria have pending the results of the PCR after 72 hours of clinical course, and if this test is negative, proceed to discharge. Nurse We have pending, because his first PCR is negative and are waiting for 72 hours of evolution to, if is negative, proceed to discharge him. A nursing assistant who entered yesterday and we have confirmed a few minutes ago that the PCR is negative. And the nurse has entered this morning at 9.30. When we have more information and give. Husband is a contact. has no symptoms. He has to be 21 days in observation. ”
Fernando Simon recognizes that the ambulance was in circulation after transferring patients brought to the hospital auxiliary Alcorcon but by the time she said it had been on the team who treated Garcia and Old It is the isolated, by removing the ambulance and patients who were transferred in that ambulance were located occurred. The circle is closed completely. Knowing that transportation by ambulance is very low risk because stretcher clean. “
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