Madrid suspects Ebola passenger
October 16, 2014
Madrid's Barajas international airport implemented emergency measures on Thursday after a passenger arrived on an Air France flight from Paris, suspected of having the deadly Ebola virus, a spokeswoman for airports operator Aena said.
On board the flight had been 163 people.
In a separate statement, Aena and Air France said the passenger on the Air France flight 1300 from the Nigerian city of Lagos, via Paris, to Madrid, had started shaking during the journey and arrived with a fever.
A health ministry spokeswoman said Spain was treating the matter as a suspected case of Ebola.
The passenger suspected of being infected with the haemorrhagic virus had been transported to an isolation unit at Madrid's Carlos III hospital.
Others disembarked
Air France said the other passengers on Thursday's Lagos-to-Madrid flight had disembarked as normal. The plane was taken to a special airport area where it would be disinfected.
Madrid's Carlos II clinic is where Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero has been treated since October 6.
Ministry spokesman Fernando Simon said Romero's was in a stable condition. The level of Ebola virus in her body was declining, he said.
Romero contracted the virus while caring for two infected missionaries who had been repatriated from West Africa. Despite clinic treatment, both priests subsequently died.
ksb/ipj (Reuteres, dpa, AP)