Spain Activate Protocols Over Suspected Ebola Case

Health Authorities In Alicante Activate Protocols Over Another Suspected Ebola Case in Spain
By Matthew Bennett | on Google+ | August 16th, 2014
Healthcare, Pensions & Retirment | News | Spain & The World
NEWS—VALENCIA—EBOLA: Health authorities in south-eastern Spain activated Ebola alert protocols after a young Nigerian man was admitted to hospital in Alicante with fever and vomiting.


Spanish health authorities in the eastern Valencia region of Spain activated alert protocols on Saturday night over a new possible case of Ebola after a young Nigerian man was admitted to a hospital in the city of Alicante with fever and “several other symptoms” of the disease.

If confirmed, this would be the first case of Ebola virus reported in Spain. Father Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest, died last week in a Madrid hospital after being repatriated from Liberia where he was infected with the disease.

The Nigerian patient’s partner, without visible symptoms, was also present at the hospital but had not been admitted, a spokesman for St. John’s Hospital told The Spain Report by telephone.

“An alert protocol has been activated preventively due to a suspected Ebola virus case”, said the spokeswoman: “the patient has been admitted, and is clinically stable in an isolated area. He was initially admitted to the General Hospital and then brought here. Both his clinical and epidemiological symptoms suggest it might be Ebola. He has a temperature above 38.3ºC and has been vomiting”.

She said the patient had told doctors he had arrived in Spain: “a few days ago”.

Samples have been taken from the patient and are being sent tonight to Spain’s National Microbiology Centre near Madrid for analysis. The spokeswoman could not confirm when the results are expected.
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http://www.thespainreport.com/10398/span...ola-cases/

with Thousands of Africans ,crossing the mediterranean sea every week its just a matter of time .

Before they run the Gun Boats out to stop them,

cant see another way.......

I don't know why Spain was but there Spain goes...

Epidemiological analysis excluded that the patient has Ebola Alicante

08.17.2014 / 19:10 h EFE

Epidemiological studies carried out in the Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, man of Nigerian origin, who yesterday joined the Sant Joan Hospital of Alicante with symptoms to have Ebola, were negative, so it is not infected by the disease virus.

This has been confirmed to Efe sources of the Ministry of Health, who stated that the patient will not make counter-analysis, as it is not proved that it had contact with possible infected.

The patient is a Nigerian citizen who yesterday went to the emergency room of General Hospital of Alicante with characteristic symptoms of Ebola disease, such as high fever, malaise, vomiting and bleeding.
With these clinical symptoms, the treating physicians chose him to hospital de Sant Joan, a reference to the disease in the province of Alicante.

For its part, the Department of Health launched the protocol provided for cases infected with the virus suspected it could be a case of Ebola patients and to prevent contagion.

Transportation of the patient from one hospital to another took place in a specially prepared with extreme measures of health security, with special clothing for medical staff to prevent any contact ambulance.

The man was admitted and isolated in one of the floors of the Hospital de Sant Joan, while he practiced the relevant epidemiological evidence. Throughout the night the patient was stable.

Hospital patients, the Nigerian man was accompanied by a woman who has been treated as a patient in either hospitals because no symptoms of being sick.

Samples were extracted man sent yesterday to the Institute of Health Carlos III in Madrid, to determine the type of disease and Ebola test performed was negative.

At all times, practitioners of Sant Joan Hospital who have cared for this patient have taken protective measures to avoid direct contact with the patient.

Sources from the Ministry of Health have highlighted that launched the Ebola protocol preemptively before a characteristic symptomatology and to avoid possible infection in the population and the medical staff attending him.

The same sources have indicated that, in view of the results provided by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the protocol has been disabled Ebola, although the patient remains hospitalized and isolated in a hospital ward.

From then be hospital doctors to decide when leaving the isolation function of the disease with, although it no longer is a public health issue but a patient, so that more data were not provided.

A result of this case finally ruled out Ebola, the Federation of Associations for the Defence of Public Health (FADSP) today warned that while the virus can not control in Africa, there is a chance you get to Spain and therefore , asked the hospital Carlos III, under the La Paz hospital in Madrid, as a reference center, with adequate provision is maintained.

After the alert for Alicante, said federation stresses the importance of maintaining at least a reference center for the control and treatment of these patients, optimize care and minimize the risk of spreading the virus.

Politically, United ERC (EU) announced today that prompted the urgent hearing this month of August in the Valencian parliament Minister of Health, Manuel Llombart, to explain the procedures and actions taken in this case.

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