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Woman treated priest who died from virus after being brought to Madrid from Sierra Leone
An ambulance arrives at Madrid’s Carlos III
Hospital with ebola patient Manuel García Viejo last month. / ULY MARTIN
A Spanish nurse has become the first person to be infected with the ebola
virus in Europe.
The woman formed part of the team who treated Spanish
missionary Manuel García Viejo, who died of the virus on September 26 at
Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital.
Two blood tests carried out on the nurse have both tested positive for the
virus, according to sources at the Health Ministry.
The patient was admitted to hospital in the Madrid satellite town of Alcorcón
on Monday morning suffering from high fever. The hospital activated emergency
protocols and isolated her in the emergency room.
Two blood tests carried out on the nurse have both tested
positive for the ebola virus
“We are working to verify the source of the infection,” Spanish Health
Minister Ana Mato told a press conference on Monday evening. Medics are now
examining all the people with whom the infected woman has come into contact,
including hospital staff in Alcorcón.
She is the third person to be treated for ebola in Spain after Spanish
missionaries Miguel
Pajares and Manuel García Viejo were repatriated after contracting the
disease working in Liberia and Sierra Leone, respectively. Both later died from
the virus at the Carlos III Hospital.
The woman is 44, married without children, and originally from Galicia,
though she has spent the last 15 years working at Carlos III in Madrid,
according to workers there consulted by EL PAÍS.
These same staff members who, like the infected woman, worked in shifts to
look after García Viejo also expressed their astonishment at the woman’s
infection given the “extreme” protection measures in place. They dressed in two
sets of overalls, two pairs of gloves and goggles while treating the
patient.
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