Reuters report: Spanish nurse who treated Ebola
victim in Madrid tests positive for disease in initial tests, authorities
awaiting final results. As far as I can establish the woman had
been treating Manuel Garcia Viejo, the second Spanish priest flown to Madrid
for treatment, who died on September 25, 2014. She was at the Carlos III
hospital in Madrid (the hospital is about 5 Km North of Retiro, due West of
Barajas Airport).
Carlos III Hospital, Madrid, where the priest
was being treated and where the nurse contracted
Ebola sometime on or before September 25, 2014.
For your reference, the first report (from the Telegraph, UK) on a priest being flown into Spain from Africa for Ebola treatment:
Miguel Pajares, the first priest,
treated unsuccessfully in August
August 7, 2014, first priest arrives:
The first European victim of the
West African Ebola outbreak arrived in Spain on Thursday morning and was rushed
to a Madrid hospital, officials said, as hopes rose that a US experimental
vaccine could soon be available for wider treatment.
Miguel Pajares, 75, who was said to
be in a stable condition, was helping to treat Ebola patients in the Liberian
capital Monrovia when he tested positive for the deadly virus earlier this
week.
He was swiftly flown to Spain in a
medically equipped Airbus 310 along with a colleague, Juliana Bohi, a nun from
Equatorial Guinea with Spanish nationality who is to be retested for the
disease after a negative result in Liberia.
August 14, first priest dies:
A Spanish priest died of the Ebola
virus in a Madrid hospital Tuesday morning, just days after he had been
evacuated by air from Liberia for treatment with an experimental drug, health
officials said.
Rev. Miguel Pajares, a 75-year-old
missionary, was being treated in a special isolation unit of Madrid's Carlos
III Hospital, where he had arrived Thursday after being flown out of Liberia in
a Spanish Air Force medical jet. On Saturday, Spain's Ministry of Health
Services announced that it had approved, on an exceptional basis, an import
permit for ZMapp, an experimental Ebola drug that has also been given to two
infected Americans. The ministry said the drug had been delivered immediately
to the hospital where Father Pajares was undergoing treatment.
September 22, Second Priest Arrives
The second case was the one the sick nurse treated, his name was Manuel Garcia Viejo, who arrived in Madrid on September 22.
September 25, Second Priest Dies
A Spanish priest who was diagnosed
with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone has died at a Madrid
hospital, becoming the second Spanish missionary to fall victim to the deadly
virus.
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Manuel Garcia Viejo in Sierra Leone. Dr. Garcia
was the second priest brought to Spain. The nurse
who belonged to his treatment team contacted Ebola
sometime around September 25.
The Carlos III hospital said in a
statement that Manuel Garcia Viejo, a 69-year-old medical director of the San
Juan de Dios Hospital in the city of Lunsar in Sierra Leone, died Thursday. It
provided no further information.
Garcia Viejo had arrived in the
Spanish capital on a medically-equipped military plane on Monday.
October 10, Nurse reported with Ebola contracted from second priest
This confirms the incubation period is about 15 days.
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