Manuel Garcia Viejo was transferred to Spain from Sierra Leone but died days later
The Spanish health minister has confirmed that a nurse who treated a victim of Ebola in Madrid has tested positive for the disease.
The Spanish nurse is the first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa.
She was a member of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of the virus on 25 September.
Some 3,400 people have died in the outbreak - mostly in West Africa.
The priest died in the hospital Carlos III de Madrid after catching Ebola in Sierra Leone.
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