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German clinic scraps two machines worth ?1m due to Ebola patient vomiting on them

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  • German clinic scraps two machines worth ?1m due to Ebola patient vomiting on them

    I wonder why they can't be cleaned / decontaminated? The virus can only live for a relatively short time on fomites...

    "A German hospital is counting the cost of treating a single Ebola patient after being forced to write off ?1million worth of equipment after a man infected with the virus vomited on it.

    The University Clinic Eppendorf in Hamburg, a specialist centre for contagious diseases, gave the man intensive treatment for five weeks after he became infected while working for the World Health Organisation in Sierra Leone in August.

    The treatment worked and the patient was declared Ebola-free and released earlier this month."

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    A German hospital is counting the cost of treating a single Ebola patient after being forced to write off £1million worth of equipment after a man infected with the virus vomited on it.
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