
Six people have been placed under quarantine for suspicion of Ebola virus infection, increasing the overall number of individuals suspected with the deadly disease in Spain to 23, Spanish authorities announced Thursday.
Three of them are at a Madrid hospital, while three others are at a hospital in Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, after showing symptoms of the deadly disease, health ministry sources said, according to Spanish TV.
Among the hospitalized in Tenerife is a Spanish priest, who returned home on October 12 bound from Sierra Leone, considered one of the worst Ebola-affected West African countries, and two individuals who lived with him in the same house, sources said.
Meanwhile, a Nigerian passenger was placed under quarantine for Ebola symptoms suspicion, said Spanish TV, after his flight made a stop at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris earlier, adding that he was coming from Lagos, Nigerian coastal city.
It also said that another Spanish priest, who returned home coming from Liberia, was hospitalized in one of Madrid's hospitals on October 11, adding that another individual was taken to the same hospital after being suspected of contracting the disease while being inside the same ambulance that transported the first Ebola-infected Spanish female citizen.
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