A MADRID nurse infected with Ebola was fighting for her life Friday as authorities worldwide tightened screening of travellers and tried to prevent panic over the deadly disease spreading.
From Australia to Zimbabwe, and Macedonia to Spain people who showed signs of fever or had recent contact with Ebola victims, were whisked into isolation units or ordered to stay in their homes.
False reports of infections forced Spanish police to call for calm, while in France some public buildings outside Paris were briefly closed after a scare.
With authorities warning that hoaxes could trigger panic, a man was taken off a US flight by a bio-hazards team after he sneezed and reportedly said, "I have Ebola. You are all screwed."
The warnings come amid serious concerns in Spain over how the virus could have spread in the country's main isolation hospital, with the government setting up a crisis committee on Friday to tackle the "complex and difficult" situation.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited the Carlos III hospital in Madrid where 44-year-old nurse Teresa Romero was infected, and where she was in a "stable but serious" condition Friday.
Doctors there took in seven more patients for observation late Thursday, while Madrid's regional leader said Romero, who caught the haemorrhagic fever while caring for two missionaries brought back from Africa, was at "serious risk" of dying.
Her husband and 12 other people, most of them medical staff, were also under observation, though a male nurse had been discharged, the hospital said.
In a sign of the stress at the hospital, where the media are camped out, some staff did not show up for work on Friday. One nurse caring for Romero, Charly Manuel Torres, told AFP: "There are fewer staff signing up to help" in giving voluntary extra cover at the hospital.”
by AFP
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