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Europe Alert!!! First Ebola Infection Outside Africa Confirmed In Spain by Bamibor: 7:23pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid is thought to be the first person to have contracted the virus outside Africa, health officials say. The nurse tested positive for Ebola in initial tests and doctors are awaiting final results, according to reports. She was part of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of Ebola on 25 September. Some 3,400 people have died in the outbreak - mostly in West Africa. The priest died in the hospital Carlos III de Madrid after catching Ebola in Sierra Leone. The nurse was admitted to hospital on Monday morning with a high fever, Spanish newspaper El Pais said. Doctors isolated the emergency treatment room, the report said. Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has the virus and the only way to stop an outbreak is to isolate those who are infected. There have been nearly 7,500 confirmed infections worldwide, with officials saying the figure is likely to be much higher in reality. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been hardest hit. Celebrations in West Africa for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha are being badly affected by the Ebola outbreak, with many public places deserted this weekend. Earlier health officials said people arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports. It comes as the US tries to limit the spread of its first confirmed case, a Liberian in Dallas. Soure: www.bbc.co.uk |
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