Ebola Victim: Spanish Priest "Miguel Pajares" Dies In Madrid Hospital

The first European infected by a strain of Ebola, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, has died in hospital, Reuters reported, citing a spokeswoman for Madrid health authorities.

Five days after being flown to Madrid from Liberia, The 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, who was being treated in Spain with an experimental US serum, ZMapp, has been reported dead.

He contracted Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia where he worked with patients suffering from the disease.

“It is confirmed. He died at 9.28am,” said a spokeswoman for Spain’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital.

“The priest had been treated with ZMapp,” she said.

He is one of only three Ebola patients thought to have received the experimental drug.
The others are two Americans evacuated to Atlanta.
Pajares, who was treating people with Ebola at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia when he became infected, was evacuated to Spain on Thursday.
He worked for the San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Spain-based Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world.
The news of his death comes after eight Chinese medical workers have also been placed in quarantine in Sierra Leone, as health experts grappled with ethical questions over the use of experimental drugs to combat the killer Ebola virus.