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When Caring Kills: Ebola Kills Nurses Who Touched Baby
By Maggie Fox
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?There was a woman who had come into the treatment center with her infant,? said Dynes, who with Purfield first told the story on NPR?s Story Corps. The young mother died, but her baby, still young enough to be breast-feeding, tested negative for the virus.
?But we know that baby?s risk of becoming Ebola positive was very high, from contact with the mother and breast-feeding. The nurses decided they would keep the baby in the nurses? area so they could watch over the baby instead of putting the baby in the Ebola ward.?
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?It?s this tough choice between picking up the baby and caring for the baby and putting yourself at risk in contrast to just letting that baby sit in a box,? she said. ?This speaks to the mother in all of us. How can anyone see the baby in a box and not love and comfort her??
But the baby did develop Ebola infection, and so did all but one of the dozen or so nurses. The baby and most of the nurses all died.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...s-ebola-kills-nurses-who-touched-baby-n230696
By Maggie Fox
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?There was a woman who had come into the treatment center with her infant,? said Dynes, who with Purfield first told the story on NPR?s Story Corps. The young mother died, but her baby, still young enough to be breast-feeding, tested negative for the virus.
?But we know that baby?s risk of becoming Ebola positive was very high, from contact with the mother and breast-feeding. The nurses decided they would keep the baby in the nurses? area so they could watch over the baby instead of putting the baby in the Ebola ward.?
...
?It?s this tough choice between picking up the baby and caring for the baby and putting yourself at risk in contrast to just letting that baby sit in a box,? she said. ?This speaks to the mother in all of us. How can anyone see the baby in a box and not love and comfort her??
But the baby did develop Ebola infection, and so did all but one of the dozen or so nurses. The baby and most of the nurses all died.
...
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...s-ebola-kills-nurses-who-touched-baby-n230696