Spanish Nurse Contracts Disease

Spain has reportedly diagnosed its first case of Ebola after a nurse who attended to an infected patient tested positive for the disease in Madrid.

The unidentified nurse was part of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who got infected in Sierra Leone and died on September 25, BBC reports.

Viejo was the second Spaniard to die of the disease after another priest, Miguel Pajares, who contracted the disease in Liberia, died in August.

Further tests are being awaited to confirm the diagnosis.

The World Health Organization has put the death toll of the current Ebola outbreak at over 3,400, with most of the casualties coming from Liberia and Sierra Leone.