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Evacuated Spanish priest with Ebola dies

12 August 2014 - 13:16 By Sapa-AFP
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ON A MISSION: Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, being loaded into an ambulance at Torrejon airbase in Madrid after being evacuated from Liberia for treatment in Spain for Ebola. Pajares, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed close to 1000 people, is in a stable condition in a Madrid hospital
ON A MISSION: Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, being loaded into an ambulance at Torrejon airbase in Madrid after being evacuated from Liberia for treatment in Spain for Ebola. Pajares, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed close to 1000 people, is in a stable condition in a Madrid hospital
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An elderly Spanish priest infected with Ebola died in a Madrid hospital on Tuesday, five days after being evacuated from Liberia, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, had been treated in Spain with an experimental US serum called ZMapp after being flown to Madrid on August 7.

He contracted the virus at the Saint Joseph Hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia where he worked.

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