BREAKING NEWS : Ebola hits Spain (see details)

A Spanish nurse has become the first person to be infected with Ebola outside of West Africa, after contracting the virus while treating a missionary who died in a Madrid hospital,Spain’s health ministry said Monday.

The assistant nurse was part of the medical team at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital that treated Manuel García Viejo, the missionary, who was repatriated from Sierra Leone but died in the hospital on Sept. 25.
Ana Mato, Spain’s hea
lth minister, told a televised news conference that the nurse tested positive for Ebola twice, and that the rest of the 30-person team that looked after the missionary were undergoing medical tests to determine whether they had contracted Ebola. The nurse’s identity was not disclosed.
The Carlos III hospital was specially selected and prepared to treat another Spanish priest who had been working in Africa and was the first European to be repatriated after being infected with Ebola. The priest, August Miguel Pajares, died on Aug. 12, five days after entering the special unit of the hospital.