France: Nurse who had contact with Ebola patient now in hospital with a high fever

[davidn3600]

(Reuters) - A nurse suspected of having caught the Ebola virus through contact with an infected humanitarian worker was admitted to a hospital near Paris on Thursday, media said.

The woman, suffering from a high fever, was transferred under high security from her home in the Hauts de Seine region of greater Paris to the Begin de Saint-Mande military hospital outside the capital, Le Parisien daily said.

The woman had been in regular contact with a French volunteer working with humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) who contracted Ebola in Liberia and was repatriated to France last month.

It was not immediately clear from the report if the two came into contact in France or Liberia or what the nurse's nationality was.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/us-health-ebola-france-idUSKCN0I51V520141016

[truebrit71]

1. What does "regular contact" mean?

And if she dies have ebola, how did she catch it through "regular contact"...

[Warpy]

2. Maybe they were shagging, who knows?

A lot of people have spread it to spouses and infants but have left the older children in the home healthy. If they get this under control, counting up all the orphans will be tragic.