A nurse being treated for the deadly Ebola virus in Spain has been transferred from one Madrid hospital to another.<br /><br />Spain’s health minister announced that the case was the first known transmission of the current outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa. <br /><br />The female nurse had helped treat two Spanish priests repatriated to Madrid after contracting Ebola in West Africa.<br /><br />The nurse is believed to have contracted the virus from one of the priests.<br /><br />She originally went to the Alcorcon hospital with a fever on Sunday and was placed in isolation.<br /><br />She is now in Carlos III Hospital for further treatment.<br /><br />Spanish authorities are looking into how she was infected at a modern hospital with special equipment for helping people with deadly viruses.<br /><br />“We are tracing everyone she has been in contact with and checking what contact they had,” explained Antonio Alemay, from Madrid’s public health system.<br /><br />“We need to make sure the correct protection measures were taken, such as isolation, and temperature checks twice a day for 21 days,” he added.<br /><br />The nurse’s husband has been quarantined in hospital, the head of Spain’s public health service told parliament on Tuesday.
