Spanish nurse tests positive for Ebola after treating infected patients in Madrid hospital+ chart (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by pinkorchid , Brisbane , Australia, Tuesday, October 07, 2014, 06:23
edited by pinkorchid, Tuesday, October 07, 2014, 07:39

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An assistant nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital is infected with the virus herself, health officials said.

A Spanish nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital is thought to be the first person to have contracted the virus outside Africa.

"She is a health professional who took care of the infected with the disease who were repatriated and cared for at Carlos III hospital," the director of Spain's public health department, Mercedes Vinuesa, told a media conference.

Health Minister Ana Mato also told the news conference that an emergency protocol had been put in place and authorities were working to establish the source of the contagion.

Both the patients the nurse helped care for died from the disease.

Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, was infected with Ebola in Liberia and died at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital on August 12.

Another Spanish missionary, Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, was repatriated from Sierra Leone and died at the same hospital on September 25.

Both were members of the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, a Catholic group that runs a charity working with Ebola victims in Africa.

Spanish health officials said they were monitoring 30 other health workers who attended the priests.
Spanish health officials media conference.jpg Photo: Spain's health minister Ana Mato flanked by public health director Mercedes Vinues (L) says an emergency protocol has now been put in place. (AFP: Dani Pozo)

The assistant nurse was admitted to hospital on Monday morning with a high fever, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.

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