Ebola: First European victim returns home in sealed plastic chamber
Missionary Miguel Pajares, 75, returned to Spain where he is being treated in isolation after contracting Ebola
A Spanish priest has become the first person carrying the deadly Ebola virus to be brought back to Europe for treatment.
Missionary Miguel Pajares, 75, was rushed to hospital in Madrid after being repatriated on a military plane from Liberia in west Africa this morning.
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 where his Catholic humanitarian group works, was flown back to Spain with a nun who although uninfected, 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.
Twelve medical staff working in three shifts will care for them in a building which has been cleared of other patients.
Mr Pajares' condition overnight was said to have deteriorated with local reports saying he was on a drip and was now unable to walk unaided.
The priest's brother Emilio said he was "worried but happy" about the transfer.
Mercedes Vinuesa, director general of public health in Spain, downplayed fears over the repatriation by insisting: "The safety protocols we will use guarantee minimum risk."
Since breaking out earlier this year, the Ebola virus has killed 932 people in four west African countries.
The World Health Organisation says there has been at least 1,711 cases of the disease, which has no proven cure, this year.
Two American aid workers repatriated earlier this week after being diagnosed with Ebola are said to be showing signs of improvement.
Mr Pajares had worked as a missionary in Africa for nearly five decades and was due to return to Spain for good in September.
Speaking before he was flown back he said: "I'd like to return because we have a very bad experience of what's happened here.
"We are abandoned. We want to go to Spain and be treated like people."
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