Fear of Ebola's growing reach as more Spaniards are placed in isolation
Three more people isolated for monitoring after infection of nurse in specialist unit; case has prompted questions over safety procedures
Fears grew yesterday that the Ebola epidemic was spreading outside Africa after three more people were isolated in Spain following the infection of a nurse in a Madrid hospital.
The EU demanded answers about how the disease could have spread in Spain's most specialist unit treating Ebola where the nurse cared for two elderly Spanish missionaries who died from the virus after being flown home from West Africa.
Ebola has been raging there since the beginning of the year, with nearly 3,500 confirmed deaths so far.
Tests confirmed that the nurse, 40, was the first person to contract the virus outside Africa.
Doctors said her husband was at "high risk" and had been admitted to the La Paz-Carlos III hospital, where the nurse worked. A man who recently returned from abroad was also being monitored there, as was one of the nurse's colleagues, who was suffering diarrhoea.
The infected nurse began to feel ill on September 30 while on leave after treating the two priests in the hospital's isolation unit. But she did not go to hospital until Sunday - five days later - complaining of a fever. She is being treated in the same unit.