Spanish Nurse Ebola Victim Whose Dog Had To Be Put Down Is Freed From Hospital

A Spanish nursing assistant who contracted Ebola after treating two priests who later died of the disease has been released from hospital.

Teresa Romero, 44, was taken into isolation on October 6 after developing symptoms of the deadly virus.

She contracted the virus after helping treat two Spanish missionaries who caught the disease while working in Liberia.

She was the first person known to have contracted the disease outside of west Africa in the latest outbreak.

Hospital doctors said Ms Romero received various treatments, including blood plasma from an Ebola survivor, but were unable to say if any had been effective.

Ms Romero had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of Ebola in August and September after they were flown back from west Africa.

Doctors said she will be able to live a normal life and poses no contamination risk.

Ms Romero was said to be heartbroken after Spanish officials killed her dog Excalibur instead of putting it into quarantine over fears it may have contracted the disease.

The nurse cared for Spanish missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, who died on September 25 after being infected with Ebola while he treated patients in Sierra Leone.

Another Spanish priest, 75-year-old Miguel Pajares, had died in Madrid in August after being flown back from missionary work in Liberia.

Ms Romero was treated with a drip of human serum containing antibodies from Ebola sufferers who had survived the disease, and other drugs which a government spokesman declined to name.

One was the experimental anti-viral medicine favipiravir, according to the respected national newspaper El Mundo.

Ms Romero is the only known sufferer of Ebola in Spain after the death of the two priests.

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