--- title: Ebola: Spain Confirms First Transmission Outside of Africa description: The nurse had helped treat another Ebola patient canonical: https://time.com/3476419/spain-ebola/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-06T22:56:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:30.703Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola: Spain Confirms First Transmission Outside of Africa og:description: The nurse had helped treat another Ebola patient og:url: https://time.com/3476419/spain-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta88aed4d8b004c84/6986a741d0b6f24539306844/spain-nurse-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2275 og:image:height: 1280 og:image:alt: Spain Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: Spain Confirms First Transmission Outside of Africa twitter:description: The nurse had helped treat another Ebola patient twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta88aed4d8b004c84/6986a741d0b6f24539306844/spain-nurse-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Spain Confirms First Ebola Transmission Outside of Africa > Sponsored content. 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An ambulance transporting a Spanish nurse who is believed to have contracted the ebola virus from a 69-year-old Spanish priest leaves Alcorcon Hospital in Madrid on Oct. 7, 2014. Andres Kudacki—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 6, 2014 10:56 PM UTC **Updated Oct. 7 9:17a.m ET** A nurse in Spain who treated two Ebola victims has [tested positive for the virus](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/06/spanish-health-care-worker-contracts-ebola-in-first-transmission-case-outside-of-africa/), becoming the first known person to have contracted the disease outside of Africa, Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato announced Monday. The woman had worked as a part of the medical team that treated Spanish priest Manuel García Viejo, who died of the virus in September, the Washington _Post_ reports. She began feeling ill last week and went to a hospital on Sunday, though Mato said she is in stable condition and her only symptom thus far has been a fever. Two tests confirmed the Ebola diagnosis. Authorities said Tuesday that three people had been put in quarantine, the Associated Press reports, including the nurse’s husband and a colleague who also treated Viejo. Over 50 others were being monitored for having possible contact with the nurse. \[[_Washington Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/06/spanish-health-care-worker-contracts-ebola-in-first-transmission-case-outside-of-africa/)\] ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I saw decent people losing their life to Ebola. [ MUSIC ] I work overtime. I work in the day. I work in the night. People will call me. Me. I have to be there, I have to take them to the center and today because of that a lot of them have their life back. When I went in he was lying in a pool of vomit. I picked him up. he kept vomiting so maybe it through that, mistakenly it seeped through somewhere in my PPEs and. I didn't, I didn't really care because I did not want him to lost his life, so when I checked him for what was happening my only concern was to drive him to the center that he, he received treatment. Day after then, I fell sick [ MUSIC ] I don't regret anything. Even if I lose my life in the process, I don't regret it. It's what God wanted to happen. I'm gonna go back and do my job. I wanna help save a lot of lives. Our people are dying. Everybody can't see a way. Now that I have built an immunity to Ebola, I'm gonna go in with full swing. 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