Ebola has now hit Spain. A nurse in Madrid nurse tested positive for Ebola after treating an infected Spanish missionary Manuel García Viejo . The patient wasn’t in Africa. He or she got infected with Ebola while in Spain! Manuel García Viejo died in September from Ebola, but not before being treated by the now Ebola infected nurse. Manuel Garcia Viejo
returned from Sierra Leone.
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The Guardian reports that the woman tended to elderly missionary Manuel García Viejo after he was returned from Sierra Leone to Madrid for treatment on September 21. The care was ultimately unsuccessful, and Viejo died of Ebola four days after arriving at Carlos III hospital. Another missionary also succumbed to the virus at the same hospital back in August.
The woman arrived at a separate Madrid hospital on Monday morning, suffering from a high fever. Two separate tests confirmed the nurse’s diagnosis, Spanish health officials said.
Unlike in the United States, officials in Spain expressed concern over their health system’s ability to prevent and contain infection. The leader of doctor’s union Amyts worried last month that there was little guarantee that the virus would not escape, particularly since the bio-safety levels in Spanish hospitals are low and few facilities offer any kind of effective containment technology.