{"id":55299,"date":"2014-10-10T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=55299"},"modified":"2014-10-10T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:55:57","slug":"spain-sets-up-ebola-crisis-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=55299","title":{"rendered":"Spain sets up Ebola &#8216;crisis committee&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has set up a special committee to deal with the impact of Europe&#8217;s first case of Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rajoy admitted that the situation was &#8220;complex and difficult&#8221;, but stressed that the government had a clear plan of what needed to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish nurse Teresa Romero is said to be gravely ill, after catching the haemorrhagic fever while caring for patients brought from West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has killed more than 3,860 people, mainly in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 health workers are among the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola is now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-29563530\">entrenched<\/a>\u00a0in the capitals of the worst-affected states &#8211; Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Deep-clean&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside Madrid&#8217;s Carlos III hospital, where the 44-year-old Spanish nurse is being treated, Mr Rajoy said: &#8220;Our first priority is Teresa Romero &#8211; she is the only person that we know has the illness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy (centre) speaks outside Madrid's Carlos III hospital. Photo: 10 October 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/78145000\/jpg\/_78145634_024272786-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Prime Minister Rajoy (centre) said the government was clear about what needed to be done<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Liberian man washes his hands from a water bottle tied to a roof outside a shop to curb the spread of Ebola in Dolos Town Community, Margibi County (9 October 2014)\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/78126000\/jpg\/_78126084_024261761-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Ebola is taking a particularly heavy toll in Liberia<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The trial serum in Mali that is hoped to fight the Ebola virus 10 October 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/78134000\/jpg\/_78134231_photo(11).jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Results of the clinical trial span several countries in the region, and results will be sent to a team of experts<\/div>\n<p>The prime minister said the second key task was to find others who might have caught the virus and investigate how this happened.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking as seven more people in Spain were being monitored in hospital for suspected Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>They include two hairdressers who came into contact with Ms Romero.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse&#8217;s apartment in Alcorcon, near Madrid, has been sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Notices outside the complex announce an ongoing deep-clean by emergency services, the BBC&#8217;s Lucy Williamson in Madrid says.<\/p>\n<p>On the driveway, there is a message of sympathy and hope, and a small scattering of candles can be seen, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Romero is believed to have become infected after touching her face with the glove of her protective suit while taking it off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experimental serum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a senior health official told the BBC that leading global experts in the field had not anticipated the scale of the Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Dye from the WHO said the international response was helping, and the important thing now was to look forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve asked for a response of about $1bn (\u00a3618m); so far we have around $300m (\u00a3185m) with more being pledged, so a bit less than half of what we need but it&#8217;s climbing quickly all the time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned of the potential spread of the virus, but at the time the WHO\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-26838885\">played down the claims<\/a>, saying that Ebola was neither an epidemic, nor was it unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday MSF reported\u00a0<a title=\"MSF link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msf.org.uk\/article\/ebola-treatment-centre-guinea-stretched-limit\">a sharp increase of Ebola cases in the Guinean capital,<\/a>\u00a0Conakry, dashing hopes that the disease was being stabilised there.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Mali, an experimental serum is being tested on volunteer health workers.<\/p>\n<p>The trial spans several countries, and the results will be sent to experts to determine whether it can protect against Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has set up a special committee to deal with the impact of Europe&#8217;s first case of Ebola. 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