It has been reported that four people who came down with high fever, suspected to be the deadly Ebola virus were on Thursday being tested in Spain for any trace of infection.
The suspected carriers of the deadly Ebola virus included a passenger who came into Spain from Lagos, Nigeria on an Air France jet. According to eye-witnesses, the passenger started shivering during the flight and was immediately rushed to the Carlos III Hospital shortly after the plane touched down at the Barajas International Airport, Madrid.
The Air France spokesperson confirmed that the passenger had been quarantined; adding that sources at the airline implied that he wasn't infected with the Virus.
The other passengers were allowed to disembark while the return flight was cancelled to conduct a full decontamination of the jet in an isolated area.
Others include a primary contact of the infected Spanish nurse, Teresa Romero has also been blacklisted as an Ebola suspect and has been moved to the same hospital as the suspected Air France passenger where tests will be carried out and possibly a quarantine, Although contact was made before the Spanish nurse fell sick with the disease.
Another has been confirmed to be a member of the Red Cross who was on duty at Sierra Leone where he treated Ebola patients and eventually came down with a fever while at Tenerife, Canary Islands. His roomates, tho negative, were placed under isolation as a precautionary measure.
The Spanish Health Ministry also confirmed the inclusion of a missionary who was hospitalised when he showed signs of fever after returning to Spain from an infected Liberia where he tended to Ebola patients.
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