Friday, 8 August 2014

Spain treats first case of Ebola; Spanish priest & nun test positive


The Ebola virus has spread to Europe. A Spanish priest infected with the virus in Liberia arrived in Madrid for treatment yesterday. 75 year old Miguel Pajares (pictured below) had been working as a missionary in Liberia when he tested positive for Ebola at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Monrovia. A medically-equipped military jet was sent to Liberia yesterday to repatriate Pajares.

A Spanish nun named Paciencia Melgar working in Equatorial Guinea has also tested positive to Ebola and will also be
repatriated to Spain.

The priest and the nun belonged to a Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world, and had been
helping to treat patients infected with the virus when they were infected.

(2nd photo: The Spanish priest as he arrived in Madrid yesterday...)

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