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Spanish missionary infected with Ebola to be flown home

Source: Xinhua | August 7, 2014, Thursday | Online Edition

A Spanish missionary who has been infected with the Ebola virus is to be flown back to Spain on Wednesday, the Spanish state television network, RTVE, confirmed.

Seventy-five-year-old Miguel Pajares, who works at a hospital run by the Order of San Juan de Dios in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, has been confirmed as suffering from the virus.

The epidemic has claimed more than 900 lives since breaking out earlier this year in West Africa.

Pajares is currently in an isolation ward and will be returned home in one of medical A310 Airbus owned by the Spanish air force.

"Miguel is very weak, he has a fever and is eating very little," commented one of Pajares' companions at the hospital.

Health Ministry sources have confirmed that the risk of a possible infection as "very low," and Pajares will return under a "maximum security" protocol.

He will be accompanied by two of other missionaries, one of whom is Congolese and the other from Equatorial Guinea, who were also tested positive for the virus, which on occasions can have a mortality rate as high as 90 percent.

Meanwhile, a Spanish nun, Juliana Bonoha, who had shown symptoms similar to those of the disease, has been cleared of having the Ebola virus after tests.

As a consequence of the Ebola outbreak which is affecting the region, the Spanish Foreign Ministry has advised against travelling to Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Republic of Guinea.

There are a total of 210 Spaniards registered as residents in the three countries, with 30 in Liberia, 160 in the Republic of Guinea and around 20 in Sierra Leone.

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