Spain has been declared Ebola free

Who declared Spain Ebola free

Spain is officially clear of Ebola, the World Health

Organization declared Tuesday, after no new cases were

reported since a nurse’s assistant who contracted the virus

there tested negative for it.

Since then, 42 days have passed — double the maximum

known incubation period for the virus — without another

case, allowing Spain to be declared free of Ebola.

Spanish authorities had been monitoring 87 people who

came into contact with healthcare worker Teresa Romero

Ramos, 15 of whom were considered high-risk and were

quarantined at a Madrid hospital, WHO said.

Another 145 hospital employees who helped care for

Romero during her month-long stay at the Carlos III

Hospital were also monitored.

The WHO statement said it “commends Spain for the

measures put in place to identify potential cases and

prevent further transmission of the Ebola virus.”

Romero contracted the illness while helping to care for an

infected missionary who had been brought back from West

Africa. He died of the disease.

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