The Madrid hospital where the nurse got Ebola was specially chosen and prepared to handle Ebola. [View all]

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And the nurse who got it only had 2 contacts with her patient.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/world/europe/spain-reports-first-case-of-ebola-contracted-outside-west-africa.html

The Carlos III hospital was specially selected and prepared to treat another Spanish priest who had been working in Africa and was the first European to be repatriated after being infected with Ebola. The priest, August Miguel Pajares, died on Aug. 12, five days after entering the special unit of the hospital.

Ms. Mato, the health minister, would not discuss how a staff member could have contracted Ebola while working in a hospital specially equipped to handle such a dangerous virus. “We are trying to determine whether all the health safety protocols have been followed,” she said.

Ms. Mato urged people to remain calm, adding that “all the possible measures” were being taken to guarantee public health safety.

Antonio Alemany, a health official from the regional government of Madrid, told the news conference that the nurse went on vacation a day after Father García Viejo died. She contacted a medical center on Sept. 30, after feeling feverish, but had been leading “a normal life” while on vacation, he added, without giving details about her whereabouts during that period.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/spanish-nurse-first-person-contract-ebola-outside-africa-n219581

A nurse in Spain has become the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa in the latest epidemic, authorities said on Monday.

The woman, who was described as a "sanitary tech," last month treated a priest in Madrid who later died of Ebola after contracting the virus while doing missionary work in Sierra Leone.

The elderly priest, Manuel Garcia Viejo, was treated in Madrid's Carlos III hospital, where he had been in quarantine since his return from Africa. He died on Sept. 25. The nurse entered the priest's room twice: Once to treat him and once upon his death, to recover his belongings, officials said. She began showing signs of illness on Sept. 30 and sought treatment, they said.

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Thirty health-care workers who came into contact with the nurse will now be under observation for 21 days, Spanish health officials said. They are also working to compile a list of people the unnamed nurse may have interacted with outside of the hospital.