A nurse who treated a victim of Ebola in Spain has tested positive for the killer virus.
The Spaniard is the first person known to have contracted the illness outside Africa during the current crisis.
The unnamed female health worker was a member of the team that treated the late Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo in Carlos III hospital in Madrid.
He died from Ebola, which he caught while in Sierra Leone, on September 25.
Another Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares, died in August after contracting the virus in Liberia
To date, 3,400 people have died during this year's outbreak - the majority in West Africa - and there have been nearly 7,200 reported cases in all.
The nurse was taken to hospital on Monday morning with a high fever, according to a report in Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The emergency treatment room where she is being cared for has reportedly been isolated.
Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has the virus and so the only way to contain an outbreak is to quarantine those who are infected.
Symptoms include bleeding, high fever, and damage to the central nervous system.
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