A Spanish priest has become the first person carrying the deadly Ebola virus to be brought back to Europe for treatment. The revelation came as shocking new pictures emerged showing more victims being dumped in streets across west Africa by terrified relatives who fear being quarantined.
Troops have set up road blocks in Liberia and Sierra Leone to stop rural residents reaching the cities as health experts from around the world prepare to discuss using untested drugs.
At a hospital in Madrid this morning, a convoy of medics in protective suits escorted missionary Miguel Pajares, 75, after he was repatriated on a military plane from Liberia in west Africa. He was put in quarantine on Saturday after testing positive for the killer disease.
Mr Pajares, who had been treating patients infected with Ebola at a hospital his Catholic humanitarian group runs, was flown back to Spain accompanied by a nun.
Although she was uninfected, she was also quarantined. The pair were due to be taken to an isolation ward at Madrid's Carlos III hospital after tests at an air force base in Madrid.
'The patients have arrived well, though a little disoriented. They are both now in quarantine,' Madrid health official Javier Rodriguez told a news conference.
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