to contract Ebola outside Africa in the current outbreak said Wednesday that she may have been exposed while removing her protective suit.
Dr. German Ramirez said
the woman, who is in isolation at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, had told
him it was possible that she might have had contact with the suit --
possibly the gloves -- on her face.
"That's what we were
working on -- on the errors possibly made while removing the protective
suit," he told reporters outside the hospital.
"I've spoken to her three times, and she has authorized me to give this information."
Ramirez said the woman, named in Spanish media reports as Teresa Romero Ramos, was confused about the calls she was receiving.
In a phone conversation
with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, she said she had followed all necessary
protocols and had no idea how she got the deadly virus. "I can't tell
you, I haven't the slightest idea," she was quoted as saying.
The woman helped to care
for a Spanish missionary who was infected with Ebola in West Africa and
who died after being brought to the hospital where she worked.
Was she worried she might have contracted the disease after helping with his care? "Well, no, not at all," she told El Mundo.
Spain's handling of the
situation has come under question as it emerged that the nurse's
assistant was not taken into isolation for several days after first
developing a slight fever on September 30, while she was on vacation.
She was eventually hospitalized on October 6, when her only symptom was a high fever.
A spokesman for Madrid's
regional health authorities said the woman is "doing better" and her
husband, who's under observation, is not showing any symptoms.
Source: CNN
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