Ebola survivor: Spanish nurse tests negative
Not all Ebola victims die. A Spanish nurse who became the first person outside Africa to be infected with Ebola on Sunday tested negative for the virus.
Not all Ebola victims die. A Spanish nurse who became the first person outside Africa to be infected with Ebola on Sunday tested negative for the virus.
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(FromL) Spanish medics treating Ebola infected Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, Marta Arsuaga Vicente, Fernando de la Calle and Maria del Mar Lago chat in a corridor of Carlos III Hospital in Madrid on October 14, 2014. Romero, who fell sick after caring for two missionaries with Ebola, now appears to have survived the disease after initially being in a "very serious condition". AFP PHOTO/ DANI POZO
Spanish nurse tests negative for Ebola
MADRID, AFP – A Spanish nurse who became the first person outside Africa to be infected with Ebola on Sunday tested negative for the virus, Madrid said, as Liberia's president made an impassioned plea for all nations to help fight the disease.
Teresa Romero, who was hospitalised in Madrid on October 6, will have to undergo a second test before she can be declared free of the deadly virus, the Spanish government said.
An undated image released on Wednesday Oct. 8, 2014 by animal rights organisation PACMA, of Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant who was infected with Ebola in Madrid, with her dog named Excalibur. She has survived but the dog was euthanised for fear that it might spread the disease.
Romero, 44, contracted the tropical fever after caring for two Ebola patients who died at Madrid's Carlos III hospital, in the first known case of transmission outside Africa.
She will be given another test "in the coming hours", according to a statement from Spain's special Ebola committee, which added that her "health was... developing favourably".
"I am very happy today because we can say Teresa beat the disease," Romero's husband Javier Limon said in a video filmed at the hospital where he is being kept under observation with 14 other people who had contact with Romero before she was diagnosed.
The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly virus has so far killed more than 4,500 people, almost all in west Africa, with close to 2,500 deaths registered in worst-hit Liberia.
Medical staff wearing protective suits work at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid on October 12, 2014, where 17 patients were under surveillance following the admission of Spanish nurse Teresa Romero infected with the ebola virus. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
Isolated cases among health workers in the US and Europe have sparked fear that the epidemic could turn global and prompted Western countries to ramp up their response.
Liberian President Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said a generation of Africans were at risk of "being lost to economic catastrophe" because of the crisis, warning that the "time for talking or theorising is over".
"This fight requires a commitment from every nation that has the capacity to help – whether that is with emergency funds, medical supplies or clinical expertise," she said in an open letter to the world published by the BBC Sunday.
The deadly virus, for which there is currently no licensed treatment or vaccine, spreads via contact with bodily fluids.
Some countries have managed to get a handle on the outbreak, with Africa's most populous nation Nigeria expected to be declared free of the deadly virus on Monday after 42 days without registering any new infections.
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