WHO declares Spain Ebola-free

Spain is officially clear of Ebola, the World Health
Organization declared Tuesday, after no new cases were
reported since a nurse’s assistant who contracted the virus
there tested negative for it.
Since then, 42 days have passed — double the maximum
known incubation period for the virus — without another
case, allowing Spain to be declared free of Ebola.
Spanish authorities had been monitoring 87 people who
came into contact with healthcare worker Teresa Romero
Ramos, 15 of whom were considered high-risk and were
quarantined at a Madrid hospital, WHO said.
Another 145 hospital employees who helped care for
Romero during her month-long stay at the Carlos III
Hospital were also monitored.
The WHO statement said it “commends Spain for the
measures put in place to identify potential cases and prevent
further transmission of the Ebola virus.”
Romero contracted the illness while helping to care for an
infected missionary who had been brought back from West
Africa. He died of the disease.