Ebola: the current situation, measures being taken, and reasons for Spain to be optimistic

[Nova]

Yup, what Janet said.  And I still think Ebola is a government consipracy, perhaps only to distract us from what we should really be worried about 

[Perikles]

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I suppose you have to forgive the two grammar mistakes

[Janet]

After a few days when things looked very bleak for Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, latest tests after days of slight improvement show that she is now ebola free though still in isolation at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital. As with the Tenerife nurse with malaria, a second test is required to confirm the result. Teresa Romero contracted the disease when she was involved in the care of the Spanish priest and missionary who themselves died of ebola, and became a national cause when her dog Excalibur was put down.

Teresa's husband, Javier Limón, himself still ebola free though still in isolation, released a video yesterday in which he expressed his delight at her recovery, and his fury at the situation in which the family has been placed. He says he will not rest until he has exposed the "gran chapuza" (great cock-up) which Spain has presented as "management" of the ebola situation. He is not alone in expressing anger at the attempts to attribute blame for the contraction of the disease to the nurse herself while staff were equipped with ill-fitting and inadequate protective clothing, and "isolation" wards were protected by no more than corridors roped off with police tape and no entry signs.

[Janet]

The second test carried out on the Tenerife nurse is also negative. His symptoms were therefore clearly the result of the malaria for which he tested  positive. The nurse's family will now be released from isolation, and the nurse himself can be treated purely for the malaria. There is no ebola in Tenerife. There never was.  JA

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

This is brilliant - 23 "ridiculous products" you need to survive the Ebolapocalypse.  Including hazmat suits, and Ebola logbook and and Ebola resistant phone cover. 

[Nova]

I so need those earrings 

[Guanche]

Some peoples ignorance and stupidity just leave me stunned, and this woman is one of them. Its an American nurse who had been in West Africa giving assistance with the Ebola out break. On her return to the US she had a slight temperature so was admitted to hospital for a few days for tests.
It would appear that the test was negative for Ebola and she was let out with the guidelines that she kept herself, very basically, under house quarantine for a period of 21 days. That's not much to ask is it? I mean three weeks just to be sure hardly life changing and to me quite reasonable with all due regard to what could potentially happen.
But no, it would seem for this fool, to be a totally unreasonable safety precaution. So out she goes for a bike ride! And she is challenging the authorities in relation to the quarantine period set out by the Centre of Disease Control in the US.

Now we have some inkling as to why so many people have been infected in the USA. A doctor tripping round New York. Health workers flying back from the infection zone on commercial aircraft and into international airports. Crass arrogance as to the safety of the general population by ignoring the reasonable quarantine orders for just the sake of 21 days. And then arguing that there is no risk when the time period for the 'risk' isn't over. They have obviously never heard of 'Better safe than sorry'

[Janet]

they are 'muricans ... and they have "rights" ... 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

And it should be so easy - Self Quarantine should be a badge of honour for these idiots. 

Like justice - must be done and must be seen to be done.

[El Profesor]

. . . . . . . . . . . . so many people have been infected in the USA. . . . . . . . . . . . .

What?