Spain's Defense Ministry said Miguel Pajares, a Spanish
missionary priest who has tested positive for the Ebola virus, landed in
Spain on a flight from Liberia on Thursday. Photo:
MADRID—A Spanish priest infected with
the deadly Ebola virus was in "stable clinical condition" after being
evacuated from Liberia on an air force jet and admitted Thursday to a
hospital here, Spanish health officials said. Father Miguel Pajares, a 75-year-old
missionary, is being treated in a special isolation unit of Madrid's
Carlos III Hospital, after landing in Spain around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
Before
the airlift, the Spanish religious worker had been quarantined in the
San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia after testing positive for
Ebola. On Thursday, Father Pajares was "a little disoriented" and
feverish, but wasn't bleeding, Rafael Santamaría, a Spanish medical
official, said.
Paramedics move Spanish missionary Miguel Pajares, who is
infected with Ebola, into an ambulance upon his arrival outside Madrid,
Spain.
EPA
Medical workers transporting Father Pajares to the hospital from an air force base outside Madrid took great pains to avoid exposure to the virus.
The health workers donned protective body suits and carried Father
Pajares in a sealed-off bubble stretcher. Father Pajares was escorted
from the air force base to the hospital by a lengthy convoy medical and
police vehicles.
On the flight from Liberia,
Father Pajares was accompanied by a nun from Equatorial Guinea, who
Spanish press reports said holds Spanish citizenship. She had tested
negative for Ebola, but was also admitted to an isolation unit in the
hospital, as a precautionary measure. Spanish health officials described
her as being in "a generally good condition."
Ebola,
whose symptoms can begin with fever and nausea and progress to internal
bleeding, has been known to kill up to 90% of those it infects. It
spreads through contact with bodily fluids. There is no vaccine or cure.
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