WHO warns of more Ebola cases among medical personnel

A prominent WHO official has warned that more Ebola cases can be expected among medical staff even in developed countries with modern health care facilities.

Professor Peter Piot said he is not surprised a Spanish nurse has contracted the disease. 

The nurse has become the first person known to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa.

She treated two Spanish missionaries who died of Ebola in Madrid.

The nurse, identified in media reports as Teresa Romero, looked after the patients after they were repatriated from West Africa.

She remains in quarantine in the Spanish capital with her husband and 50 other people in Spain being monitored.

Some 3,400 people have died in the current outbreak.

Most of the deaths have been in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

BBC