MADRID - Madrid's regional government says it's going to kill the pet
dog ("Excalibur") of a Spanish woman who became infected with Ebola. Authorities said in a statement Tuesday that available scientific
knowledge indicates there's a risk the dog could transmit the deadly virus to
humans.
The Spanish nursing assistant became the first case of Ebola being
transmitted outside of West Africa after she cared for a Spanish priest in
Madrid who died of Ebola last month. She and her husband are now in quarantine.
The government said the dog, named Excalibur, would be euthanized in a
way to avoid suffering and using bio-security measures that it did not specify.
Its body will later be incinerated.
In other news, three more people were under quarantine Tuesday for
possible Ebola at a Madrid hospital after a Spanish nursing assistant became
infected there, authorities said. More than 50 others were being monitored as
experts pressed to figure out why Spain's anti-infection practices failed.
Health authorities were investigating how the nursing assistant, part of
a special team that cared for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month,
became infected. She was the first case of Ebola being transmitted outside of
West Africa, where a months-long outbreak has killed at least 3,500 people and
sparked social unrest.
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