When Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse now afflicted with the deadly Ebola virus, first felt feverish on September 30, she reportedly called her family doctor and told him she had been working with Ebola patients. Her fever was low-grade, just 38 degrees Celsius, far enough below the 38.6 degree Ebola red alert temperature to not cause alarm. Her doctor told her to take two aspirin, keep an eye on her fever and keep in touch, according to Spanish press reports quoting Romero’s husband Limón Romero. He says she didn’t initially exhibit any of the other Ebola symptoms: vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and she didn’t feel sick enough to stay in bed.
Romero was on holiday leave from her work at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid and she and her husband were scheduled to go on a short vacation, but he hurt his leg and they decided to stay close to home instead. She used her time off work to run errands and catch up with friends. She also sat a government civil service exam with 20,000 other people to try to win a better job placement at the hospital, according to Spain’s El País newspaper, which also reports that Romero discussed her slight fever and how she was feeling sick with friends and colleagues.
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