Spanish nurse Teresa Romero after being discharged from hospital on November 5, 2014 in Madrid, Spain |
Spain is officially clear of Ebola, the World Health Organization
declared Tuesday, after no new cases were reported since a nurse's assistant who
contracted the virus there tested negative for it.
Since
then, 42 days have passed -- double the maximum known incubation period for the
virus -- without another case, allowing Spain to be declared free of Ebola. Continue...
Spanish
authorities had been monitoring 87 people who came into contact with healthcare worker Teresa Romero Ramos, 15 of whom were
considered high-risk and were quarantined at a Madrid hospital, WHO said.
Another
145 hospital employees who helped care for Romero during her month-long stay at the
Carlos III Hospital were also monitored.
The WHO
statement said it "commends Spain for the measures put in place to
identify potential cases and prevent further transmission of the Ebola
virus."
Romero
contracted the illness while helping to care for an infected missionary who had
been brought back from West Africa. He died of the disease.
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