Ebola: Spain quarantines doctors who treated infected nurse

The admissions bring to six the total number of people under quarantine at the hospital in Madrid. A spokesman for the Carlos III hospital said that so far neither of the doctors had shown Ebola symptoms, BBC News reports. Nurse Teresa Romero is the first person to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa. She was part of a team of about 30 staff looking after two missionaries who later died from the virus after being repatriated from West Africa. Feverish symptoms Ms Romero told a Spanish newspaper that she might have become infected when removing her protective suit after cleaning one of the missionaries' room. Her husband is among those being monitored. The Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 7,200, mostly in West Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the disease as a "severe illness" with a 90% death rate. Spanish newspaper El Pais said that "a chain of human errors" had led to the first contagion of Ebola outside West Africa. After cleaning the room of one of the missionaries following his death from the virus, Ms Romero took two days off from work and was instructed to monitor her temperature, the paper adds. Reports as to what happened next vary, but it is believed that several days after cleaning the room she called the hospital reporting feverish symptoms and a temperature of 37.6C. Sources working at her primary health care centre - where she was referred - told Spanish media that she had not explained that she had been in contact with Ebola-infected patients, and was discharged with painkillers. The missionaries were Miguel Pajares, 75, who died on 12 August after contracting the virus in Liberia, and Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, who died on 25 September after catching the disease in Sierra Leone.