A nurse-positive women infected with the Ebola virus after he took care of a missionary priest in Africa who are infected with this virus. This case is the first Ebola transmission occurring outside Africa.
Nurse woman is part of a medical team that handles the 69-year-old Spanish priest who died last September after being flown home from Sierra Leone where he was assigned. Such information from the Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato.
The nurse came to the hospital on the outskirts of Madrid Alcorcon with complaints of fever and immediately isolated. Mato said the nurse was confirmed infected with ebola of two tests performed.
The initial symptoms experienced nurse is just a high fever. Now health officials are authorized in the country is to record people who had contact with the nurse.
Spain's previous nurse caring for Manuel Garcia Viejo, the second missionary priest from Spain who died of ebola. In August, the pastor Mijuel Pajares (75) was also flown back to Spain from Liberia because contracted ebola. But he died after attempted treated with experimental drugs ZMapp ebola.
Ebola virus is only spread through direct contact with body fluids of an infected person and is showing symptoms. In West Africa, the disease is spreading rapidly in people who care for family members or funeral patient handling.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,400 people. Cases of transmission occurring outside Africa is increasingly worried about a lot of countries. Some airlines also tightened checks on passengers at the airport.
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