Posted on 10/15/2014 11:16:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Madrid (CNN) -- The Spanish nurse's assistant who contracted Ebola after treating a patient with the deadly virus is feeling a little better and says she would treat Ebola patients again if she is cured, a family friend and spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Teresa Romero Ramos is being treated at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the same hospital where she contracted the illness while helping to care for an infected missionary who had been brought back from West Africa.
She spoke to her husband, Javier Limon, by phone for 10 minutes, family spokeswoman Teresa Mesa told journalists outside the hospital Wednesday.
She said Romero was stable and doing better, though hospital officials said Tuesday she remains in serious condition.
Romero has been drinking water since last night and doctors are hopeful about her condition, Mesa said. She's not yet been able to eat anything.
It was in her conversation with her husband that Romero said she would pick up where she left off in caring for Ebola patients, Mesa said.
"Javier told me she is such a fool that when she gets out of here, she will do it again," Mesa said "He said, 'Honey, are you going to do it again?' And she said, 'Do what?' And he says, 'Well, that. Risk your life.' And she says, 'Yeah, but now I have the anti-virus, now it's okay.' That was the response of Teresa."
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Interesting...
No one ever tested if you can catch it again, once you’ve had it.
If not, then that is good because antibodies can be collected and shared.
If you CAN then forget it- this thing is deadly beyond any way of handling it.
There is a book called “The Hot Zone” that is all about Ebola - you can find it online for free and download it.
Chapter one will scare the crap out of you.
She will be a guinea pig to see if the anti-bodies carry over.
God BLess Her !!
She is in my prayers for her safety !
Best news I have heard in a while.
Yep....and you will NEVER forget the names of Charles Monet, Kitum Cave, Peter Cardinal, and Nurse Mayinga......and the heros CJ Peters, and Nancy and Jerry Jaxx.
TESTING...whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.
I am just where they are coming to Africa to find out what has happened - why there is radio silence.
Poor Mr. Monet. What a tragic death.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
According to what I have read, but I don't remember the source, after surviving Ebola you may have immunity for 10 years.
I am not sure that is still accurate as the disease has easlily been mutating rapidly ,
last number was 492 variants as of about a week ago.
So she still is a bit of a ginea pig for the unknown/ unverified immunity.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I read some of that book years ago. Is that the Chapter where that scientist comes down with Marburg?
Thanks for the ping!
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