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Monday, October 6, 2014

Spanish nurse tests positive for Ebola infection, AP reports

Spanish nurse tests positive for Ebola infection, AP reports
Spain’s health minister says a nurse who treated a missionary from Sierra Leone for Ebola at a Madrid hospital has tested positive for the disease, in what is the first reported incident of transmission outside Africa.

Health Minister Ana Mato said on Monday the female nurse was part of the medical team that treated a 69-year-old Spanish priest, who died in a hospital last month after being flown back from Sierra Leone, where he was posted.
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