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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Spanish priest struck with Ebola becomes the first person brought to Europe for treatment as shocking pictures reveal how more bodies are being left in African streets

Isolation: The Spanish missionary arrived this morning in an isolation chamber at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital 



  • Miguel Parajes, 75, was repatriated on military plane to Madrid from Liberia 
  • It comes as distressing photos show man collapsed in a Guinea street
  • Fearing he had deadly virus, authorities did not touch or move him for hours
  • Outbreak is deadliest ever, more than three times worse than 1976 epidemic
  • 1,711 cases and 932 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
  • Nigeria seeks new isolation chambers amid new cases in megacity Lagos 
  • Police and 750 soldiers on streets to enforce quarantines in Sierra Leone
  • Liberia's President condemns 'ignorance' as the Army sets up road blocks
  • WHO debates whether to use untested drugs but Obama says it is too early 

  Protected: The priest was flown to Spain on this adapted Airbus A310 belonging to the Spanish Air Force  

Careful: Miguel Pajares could be seen being loaded into an ambulance at an air force base in Torrejon de Ardoz 

Confusion: Police guarded this man for several hours before anyone moved him after he collapsed in a puddle in Guinea's capital Conakry, a city of 1.7million people. The death toll in the country has reached at least 363 

 Danger: The man was taken to an Ebola control centre for assessment  to be quarantined in Conakry, Guinea 

Mourning: A Liberian woman weeps over the death of a relative from Ebola yesterday in the Banjor Community on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The virus has killed at least 282 people in the impoverished country  

 Workers in rural west Africa have been given emergency supplies in the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history  

Shocking: Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia have started dragging their loved ones' bodies out of their homes and dumping them on the streets in a bid to avoid being quarantined. Above, a man walks past the dead body  

Toll: How the virus is killing people in west Africa, according to World Health Organisation figures from Monday

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