SITUATION IN SPAIN WHERE A NURSE HAS BEEN HOSPITALISED FOR SUSPECTED EBOLA: THREE RELATED STORIES
Health workers attend a protest outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for the national health minister's resignation after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
ASSOCIATED PRESS OCT. 8, 2014
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and CIARAN GILES
MADRID (AP) - Spanish health officials were investigating Wednesday whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola got the deadly disease by touching her face with Ebola-tainted protective gloves, while a strike by Ebola burial teams in Sierra Leone left abandoned bodies in the streets of the capital.
More than 3,400 people have been killed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia hardest. The case of Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero has shown that health workers can contact Ebola even in highly sophisticated medical centers in Europe.
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