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Spanish priest with Ebola arrives in Spain
MADRID
(Reuters) - The first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has
killed more than 932 people in West Africa, Spanish priest Miguel
Pajares, was stable in a Madrid hospital on Thursday after being
airlifted from Liberia, health authorities said.
Pajares, 75, was working for a non-governmental organisation in Liberia
and was repatriated along with his co-worker Juliana Bohi, a nun who
has tested negative for the disease.
Liberia has declared a state of emergency over the crisis.
"The patients have arrived well, though a little disoriented. They are
both now in quarantine," Madrid health official Javier Rodriguez told a
news conference.
The medical
plane flown out to Liberia to bring Pajares and Bohi back to Spain
touched ground at a military base in Madrid at 0600 GMT before the two
were escorted by police motorbikes and cars to the Carlos III hospital.
The hospital has cleared the entire sixth floor to treat the two patients, the health union said.
Highly contagious, Ebola, which has no known cure, kills more than half
of the people who contract it. Victims suffer from fever, vomiting,
diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding.
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