The Spanish nurse with Ebola only had 2 contacts with her Ebola patient.
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This is another reason why Ebola is so much more serious than other viruses, besides its high mortality rate; it can take so little exposure to viral material to infect a person.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/spanish-nurse-first-person-contract-ebola-outside-africa-n219581
A nurse in Spain has become the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa in the latest epidemic, authorities said on Monday.
The woman, who was described as a "sanitary tech," last month treated a priest in Madrid who later died of Ebola after contracting the virus while doing missionary work in Sierra Leone.
The elderly priest, Manuel Garcia Viejo, was treated in Madrid's Carlos III hospital, where he had been in quarantine since his return from Africa. He died on Sept. 25. The nurse entered the priest's room twice: Once to treat him and once upon his death, to recover his belongings, officials said. She began showing signs of illness on Sept. 30 and sought treatment, they said.
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Thirty health-care workers who came into contact with the nurse will now be under observation for 21 days, Spanish health officials said. They are also working to compile a list of people the unnamed nurse may have interacted with outside of the hospital.
http://news.yahoo.com/first-outside-africa-nurse-spain-hospital-contracts-ebola-174043185.html
Madrid (AFP) - In what is believed to be the first infection outside of Africa, an assistant nurse at a Madrid hospital where two Ebola patients died has contracted the virus herself, health officials said Monday.
"Two tests were done and the two were positive," a spokesman for the health department of the regional government of Madrid told AFP.
The woman works at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital where two missionaries who were repatriated from Africa with Ebola died from the disease, a spokeswoman for the hospital said.
"We do not know yet if she treated any of the two missionaries," the spokeswoman told AFP.
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