Second Spanish Priest With Ebola Dies In Madrid

The Spanish missionary who was flown home to Madrid from Sierra Leone
after contracting the Ebola virus has died, according to hospital
sources.

According to the Spanish news agency Efe, Manuel Garcia Viejo died
from the disease at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid.

Viejo was a medical director of the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios
and was working in the western Sierra Leonean city of Lunsar when he
caught the disease.

He was flown to Madrid in an isolation chamber by military plane and
received by doctors in fully protective biohazard suits.

Viejo is the second Spanish priest to die of the Ebola virus in the
space of a month, after Miguel Pajares died after being flown back to
Spain from Liberia.

The Ministry of Defence released pictures of Manuel Garcia Viejo's
arrival in Spain(Efe)

The Ebola outbreak, the worst in history, has killed more than 2,400
people in West Africa.

The deadly virus, which is spread via contact with infected body
fluids, has spread to Liberia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone and
Nigeria.

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that if
no effective measures were taken to stop the outbreak, between
550,000 and 1.4 million people could contract the Ebola virusby
January 2015 in Sierra Leone and Liberia alone.

According to the World Health Organization, around £614m is needed to
prevent the outbreak from turning into a human catastrophe.