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Ebola infection in Spain is 1st outside Africa

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In the first known transmission of the outbreakof Ebola outside West Africa, a Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital has tested positive for the virus, Spain’s health minister said Oct. 6.

The female nurse was part of the medical team that cared for a 69-year-old Spanish priest who died Sept. 25 in a Madrid hospital after he was flown home from Sierra Leone, where he served as the medical director of a hospital treating infected Ebola patients, health minister Ana Mato said. (AP)

スペインでエボラ出血熱感染、アフリカ大陸以外で初

スペインのアナ・マト保健相は10月６日、マドリードの病院でエボラ出血熱患者を担当していた看護師の感染が確認されたと発表した。アフリカ以外での感染は初めてだ。

The Japan Times ST: October 17, 2014