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| Ebola crisis: Infected Spanish nurse 'may have touched face' | Ebola crisis: Infected Spanish nurse 'may have touched face' |
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| A doctor in Madrid says the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola remembers touching her face with her gloves after treating a dying priest. | A doctor in Madrid says the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola remembers touching her face with her gloves after treating a dying priest. |
| The nurse, Teresa Romero, is the first person known to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa. | The nurse, Teresa Romero, is the first person known to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa. |
| She treated two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola earlier this year. | |
| Earlier, a World Health Organization adviser warned that more Ebola cases could be expected among medical staff, even in developed countries. | Earlier, a World Health Organization adviser warned that more Ebola cases could be expected among medical staff, even in developed countries. |
| Ms Romero, a 40-year-old auxiliary nurse, remains in quarantine in the Spanish capital along with her husband and three other people. | |
| A fifth person, said to be a friend and colleague of Ms Romero, was admitted on Wednesday morning with a slight fever. In all, more than 50 people in Spain are under observation. | |
| The infected nurse had been part of a team of about 30 staff at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid looking after the missionaries when they were repatriated from West Africa. | |
| Miguel Pajares, 75, died on 12 August after contracting the virus in Liberia, while Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, died on 25 September after catching the disease in Sierra Leone. |