– Spanish fears mount –
In Spain, five people were isolated and dozens more monitored after a nurse in Madrid apparently caught Ebola while treating two elderly missionaries who died of the disease.
One of the doctors treating Teresa Romero, the first person to contract Ebola outside West Africa, said she may have caught the deadly virus after touching her face with an infected glove.
As Spain scrambled to identify people who came into contact with Romero, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for calm and promised “transparency.”
Spain’s handling of the affair has come under question after it emerged that the nurse fell ill on September 30 while on leave after treating the missionaries, but she was not admitted to hospital until six days later.
The nurse had gone to her family doctor during this period but “she hid the fact that she was a nurse that had been in direct contact with an Ebola patient,” said the director of the health department of the Madrid regional government, Javier Gonzalez.
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