Ebola virus disease in Spain | |
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Disease | Ebolavirus |
Index case | 6 October 2014 |
Confirmed cases | 1 |
Articles related to the |
Western African Ebola virus epidemic |
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In 2014, Ebola virus disease in Spain occurred due to two patients with cases of the disease contracted during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa; they were medically evacuated.[1][2] A failure in infection control in the treatment of the second patient led to an isolated infection of Ebola virus disease in a health worker in Spain itself. The health worker survived her Ebola infection, and has since been declared infection-free.[3]