[getdownonit]

Oh, and as for the situation in Madrid, media are attributing it to "human error" as if that makes any difference to the rest of us, you know, humans...



Shit is fucked.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/10/08/inen...27533.html

Quote:

A chain of human errors led to the first case of Ebola contagion in Europe and a nation on alert with dozens of people under observation for symptoms of the disease.
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Six people have been quarantined, including her husband Javier Limón Romero and two nurses who also work at Carlos III. Over 50 others remain under observation.
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After that, Romero took a few days off with one sole instruction: to take her temperature twice a day and get in touch with the hospital’s occupational hazard department if she felt anything was wrong – standard procedure for those who have been in touch with Ebola patients.

Romero soon began to feel sick, but this did not prevent her from sitting an official examination along with 20,000 other people on September 27 to try to secure a permanent contract as a nursing assistant in the Madrid public health system.

On either September 29 or 30 – the dates vary according to the sources – the woman called the hospital to report a fever of under 38ºC and general weakness. She was told that her symptoms were indeterminant and to go to her primary health center in Alcorcón (Madrid). Sources there say Romero never explained that she had been in contact with Ebola patients, and was sent home with a prescription for painkillers.

On Tuesday, a Health Ministry official admitted to the SER radio network that Romero perhaps should have been immediately placed in isolation rather than waiting for her to reach a fever of more than 38.6ºC – the temperature at which health protocols consider that a risk of Ebola exists. Below that, the virus is not thought to be active enough to pose a risk of contagion.