Nun with Spanish missionaries dies of Ebola

A Congolese nun who worked with Spanish Catholic missionaries in
Liberia has died of Ebola, the charity she worked for said Saturday in
Madrid.

Chantal Pascaline died early Saturday "due to Ebola at the Hospital of
Saint Joseph of Monrovia" in the Liberian capital, the Hospitaller
Brothers of St. John of God said in a statement.

Pascaline worked with Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, who left
Liberia on Thursday and returned to Spain to receive treatment after
contracting Ebola.

The Hospitaller Brothers are in charge of the NGO that runs the
Liberian hospital where the priest and the nuns worked.

Spanish health authorities said Thursday that the priest -- the first
Ebola victim in the fast-spreading outbreak to be evacuated to Europe
-- was in stable condition with no sign of bleeding. The hospital is
not providing medical updates for the missionary, at his request.

A weakened Pajares arrived in Madrid aboard a special hospital plane
along with 65-year-old Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe.

The nun had been cleared of Ebola before leaving Liberia, but doctors
at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital repeated the blood test on
Thursday and said they would do so again in four days.

The Hospitaller Brothers asked Madrid on Tuesday to "urgently"
repatriate Pajares, Bonoha Bohe, Pascaline, and a Guinean-born nun,
Paciencia Melgar, who was also infected with the virus.

But officials said they would evacuate only the Spanish nationals.

AFP