Ebola: Spanish Priest Dies In Hospital After Becoming First Person In Europe To Be Treated For Virus
Missionary Father Miguel Pajare, who caught the virus in Liberia, suffered a fatal heart attack less than 48 hours after receiving the exper...
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Missionary Father Miguel Pajare, who caught the virus in Liberia, suffered a fatal heart attack less than 48 hours after receiving the experimental US-made drug ZMapp.
He caught the virus in Liberia and was flown to Madrid less than a week ago on a specially adapted plane. There will be no post mortem because of the risk of spreading the virus. Instead, he is to be cremated in a sealed zinc coffin.
Spain’s health ministry flew supplies of ZMapp from Switzerland at the weekend to Carlos III Hospital, where the priest was in an isolation ward. He was infected with Ebola while treating patients with the virus at a hospital run by a Catholic aid group.
He is the first Ebola victim to die on European soil. The virus has claimed 1013 lives across west Africa.
Pajares’s brother Gregorio said: “We’re terribly upset. We were hoping he would pull through because the reports we had were that he was improving.”
About 60 per cent of those infected in this outbreak have died.
Two aid workers repatriated to the US are being treated with ZMapp. Liberia, one of the four countries in the front line of the outbreak, is being sent the drug.
Source: Daily Record
He caught the virus in Liberia and was flown to Madrid less than a week ago on a specially adapted plane. There will be no post mortem because of the risk of spreading the virus. Instead, he is to be cremated in a sealed zinc coffin.
Spain’s health ministry flew supplies of ZMapp from Switzerland at the weekend to Carlos III Hospital, where the priest was in an isolation ward. He was infected with Ebola while treating patients with the virus at a hospital run by a Catholic aid group.
He is the first Ebola victim to die on European soil. The virus has claimed 1013 lives across west Africa.
Pajares’s brother Gregorio said: “We’re terribly upset. We were hoping he would pull through because the reports we had were that he was improving.”
About 60 per cent of those infected in this outbreak have died.
Two aid workers repatriated to the US are being treated with ZMapp. Liberia, one of the four countries in the front line of the outbreak, is being sent the drug.
Source: Daily Record
