Spain is officially free 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.
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.
Culled from Punch
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