Nurse’s aide under observation
MADRID
— A third nurse’s aide who treated an Ebola patient in Madrid checked
into a hospital Tuesday night and was under observation, the government
said on Wednesday.A spokesman for Spain’s regional health department said the hospital worker, whose name wasn’t disclosed, had a slight fever, one possible early symptom of Ebola. The aide was part of the medical team that treated Manuel García Viejo, a 69-year-old Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to Madrid. He died in late September.
On Monday, Spain’s government said a 44-year-old nurse’s aide who also treated the missionary, had contracted Ebola and was under quarantine.
By Tuesday, the government also quarantined her husband, a second nurse’s aide and a man who had recently traveled to Spain from Nigeria. On Tuesday evening, the government said the second nurse’s aide had tested negative twice for Ebola, but she remained under hospital supervision.
The first transmission of Ebola outside West Africa is a concern for European governments who have been relying on standardized Ebola protocols to avoid spreading the disease as they care for repatriated patients who contracted it in Africa. European authorities called for an investigation to determine whether any treatment protocols had been breached.
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