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Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola is discharged from hospital

The first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa has been discharged from hospital. The ...
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14.50 5 Nov 2014


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Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola is discharged from hospital

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The first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa has been discharged from hospital.

The Spanish nursing assistant caught the disease after treating patients who also had it in Madrid.

Hospital doctors say she received various treatments - including blood plasma from an Ebola survivor.

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Teresa Romero was admitted to Carlos III hospital in Madrid in October.

She was the first known person to contract the disease outside of West Africa in the latest outbreak.

Almost 400,000 people signed a petition to save her dog, Excalibur, who was put down and incinerated.

Authorities had obtained a court order to kill the dog, saying they could not rule out the possibility he could spread the virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the disease has killed around 5,000 people and infected more than twice as many.

The Irish government has pledged more than €4m to aid the international response to Ebola.


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