First case of Ebola in Europe
A Spanish woman has been infected in Madrid, ensures the Spanish Ministry of health. This is a caregiver of the hospital Carlos III.
A caregiver of a Spanish hospital where died two patients of Ebola virus is suffering from the same virus.
A caregiver of the Carlos III de Madrid Hospital where two sick of the Ebola virus have died is suffering from the disease, health authorities from Madrid said Monday. "We did two tests and both were positive," said a spokesman of the Ministry of health of the region of Madrid.
Manuel García Viejo and Miguel Pajares
This caregiver works in the Carlos III hospital, where died of the virus in August and September two missionaries repatriated from Africa. But it is not yet known if she has treated these missionaries. The priest Manuel García Viejo, age 69, had repatriated to Sierra Leone on September 22. Treated in isolation at the hospital Carlos III, he died three days later. To avoid contamination, doctors had abandoned the autopsy and the remains had been cremated.
The same procedure had been followed after the death on 12 August in the same hospital of a first reached missionary of the virus, Miguel Pajares, 75 years. Liberia in a plane evacuated Medical Spanish army, it was the first European returnee with the virus. The Ebola virus had 3.338 dead in West Africa in September 28, according to figures from the World Health Organization.