Madrid: An Ebola affected Spanish missionary who was flown back from Sierra Leone was described as "serious" by the health authorities in Spain.
Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, arrived in Madrid on Monday and was taken to the Carlos III Hospital near Madrid, Xinhua reported. He was diagnosed as being infected with the deadly virus on Friday.
Viejo has spent the past 12 years as the medical director of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Sierre Leone's Luncar city and was described as suffering from "serious dehydration".
He is the second Spanish patient to be flown home for treatment in Spain, but in contrast to Miguel Pajares, who died in the Carlos III Hospital in August, Garcia Viejo will not be treated with the experimental ZMapp serum because stocks of ZMapp have "run out in the whole World".
Consequently, medical staff are evaluating "various possibilities for alternative treatment", which the Carlos III hospital admits are experimental therapies whose efficiency has not been proven.
Meanwhile Monday, a 27-year-old woman who had recently returned to Spain after spending six months in Africa and taken to hospital in Palma de Mallorca suffering from Ebola like symptoms was confirmed to be suffering from malaria.
