Madrid patient dies from 'Congo haemorrhagic fever' and nurse in isolation ward
Thursday, September 1, 2016 @ 7:50 PM
TWO possible cases of haemorrhagic fever, a virus imported from the Congo have been detected in Europe – one of which is in Madrid.
A man aged 62 died in the capital's Gregorio Marañón University Hospital (pictured) on August 25 after being transferred there from the Infanta Leonor, and results have just come back confirming the diagnosis.
The nurse who attended to him in the Infanta Leonor is currently in the high vigilance isolation unit at the La Paz-Carlos III Hospital, where three patients were treated for Ebola in 2014 – two missionary doctors who did not survive, and nurse Teresa Romero who caught it from one of the patients, but recovered and is now back at work.
A spokesman from the Carlos III said the nurse in isolation is 'stable', having suffered a fever overnight and her blood-clotting levels being worryingly unbalanced.
“It's a complex situation, because there's no concrete and scientific information available – but despite her condition being tricky, she is in fact stable,” the employee said.
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