An
assistant nurse at a Madrid hospital where two Ebola patients died has
contracted the virus herself. According to AFP, a spokesman for the
health department of the regional government of Madrid told them: "Two
tests were done and the two were positive,"The woman works at Madrid's
La Paz-Carlos III hospital where two missionaries who were repatriated
from Africa with Ebola died from the disease, a spokeswoman for the
hospital said.
"We do not know yet if she treated any of the two missionaries," the spokeswoman told AFP.
Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, was infected with Ebola in Liberia
and died at the hospital on August 12. Another Spanish missionary,
Manuel Garcia viejo, 69, was repatriated from Sierra Leone and died at
the hospital on September 25. The Ebola epidemic that has been raging in
west Africa has so far claimed almost 3,500 lives, with Liberia, Guinea
and Sierra Leone worst hit, and the outbreak in Spain appears to be the first infection outside of Africa.
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