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| Spanish Priest,Miguel Pajares, 75 who died from the Ebola Virus |
Aww sad news,just when i thought we were getting good vibes today from the dreaded Ebola disease,some bad news slips through.
The Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa
has died in hospital in Madrid.
Miguel Pajares, 75, was airlifted back to Spain from Liberia last week with a nun who tested negative for the virus.I think he being so old probably played a part in his body not being able to cope with the treatement and virus itself.
For the past few days he had been treated with an untested, experimental drug, Zmapp.
A World Health Organisation (WHO) panel is expected to rule on Tuesday on the ethics of using ZMapp.
"A panel of medical experts has ruled that it is ethical for infected patients to be treated with experimental drugs such as ZMapp", the World Health Organisation said.
The UN health agency said in a statement: "In the particular circumstances of this outbreak, and provided certain conditions are met, the panel reached consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention."
The priest was part of a Catholic order at St Joseph's hospital in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
The hospital has now been closed because of the outbreak.
A Congolese nun died there on Saturday, days after its director, Patrick Nshamdze, also died.