Spanish health minister says MV Hondius passenger, now in a ‘critical state’, had been suffering flu-like symptoms
  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    4 hours ago

    medical misogyny

    Source?

    The article does not mention sex or medical actions based on the sex of the doctors and the patients.

    This seems like something a sexist would just conclude to. You want it to be something bad for the sex you hate, but realistically, there is nothing at all weighing behind where your mind went.

    • StillAlive@piefed.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      The article does not mention sex or medical actions based on the sex of the doctors and the patients.

      Fucking really?

      Literally the first line of article:

      A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said.

      • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        1·
        43 minutes ago

        the woman…had been suffering flu-like symptoms but they appeared to be getting better and she did not have a fever.

        “They were not thinking that these symptoms were compatible with hantavirus. Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” Padilla said.

        “It is not that the patient was feeling bad and she was saying: ‘OK, I’m not going to say anything because I want to be on the plane.’ It was like: ‘OK, we have measured your temperature, it was not fever, afterwards you have been on the plane, it has taken off, you have started feeling bad, we have measured your temperature and it was fever.’”

        Padilla said passengers could not have been tested onboard the vessel because there were no rapid PCR tests for hantavirus available. Any testing would have involved flying samples to Madrid to a specialist lab

        She had no fever, she mentioned a brief cough that was gone, and then described feelings of anxiety. There were no tests that could be done there that would be definitive, so they cleared based on other factors. She didnt present any significant symptoms until she was on the flight.