How Ebola Infected Nurse in Spain?

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.

Ebola patient had die

Amber Vinson, 29, a nurse at the Dallas hospital where an Ebola patient had died, was identified today as the second health care worker at the hospital to contract the deadly virus. She told the CDC her temperature was 99.5 degrees, which is below the 100.4 reading for a fever. "She flew into Cleveland to prepare for her wedding. She came in to visit her mother and her mother’s fiance," said Toinette Parrilla, director of Cleveland Department of Public Health. Vinson stayed at her relatives' home while visiting Ohio and those relatives are employees of Kent State University, the school said in a statement. "She did not step foot on our campus," Kent State President Beverly Warren said. The relatives were sent home from the school and asked to monitor themselves for the next 21 days, school officials said. Vinson went on her trip after being one of the nurses who was very involved with the care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola at the Dallas hospital. She drew his blood, inserted catheters, and dealt with his bodily fluids, according to Duncan's medical records obtained by the Associated Press. Vinson arrived in Cleveland on Friday Oct. 10 and returned to Dallas on the evening of Monday Oct. 13. She was diagnosed with a fever, which is considered to be the first symptom of the disease, on Tuesday Oct. 14. She was tested and her diagnosis was confirmed late Tuesday.