Ebola contagion in Spain raises fears for Europe
By Roland Lloyd Parry , Michaela CANCELA-KIEFFER
Yahoo.com
Oct. 7, 2014
Madrid (AFP) – Doctors in Spain hospitalised three more people and rushed to identify dozens of others at risk on Tuesday after a nurse was infected with the deadly Ebola virus, raising fears of contagion in Europe.
The European Union demanded answers about how the disease spread in a specialised disease unit while health staff protested over safety failures.
The nurse worked at Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III, where she cared for two elderly Spanish missionaries who died from the virus after being flown home from west Africa, where the disease has killed nearly 3,500 people.
The Madrid nurse, identified by Spanish media as a woman in her forties called Teresa, became the first person to contract the disease outside Africa.
Officials said they were trying to find out who she came into contact with before being isolated on Monday. They were monitoring 52 people — mostly health staff.
“It would be very naive to think that there is no possibility of contagion,” the government’s health emergencies coordinator Fernando Simon told Cadena Ser radio.
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