Suspected Ebola

A WOMAN is in a special unit of a Basque hospital with Ebola symptoms.

She is currently awaiting test results to confirm whether or not she has the virus.

If confirmed, it would be the second case in Spain after that of Galician nurse Teresa Romero, who contracted and overcame the disease in 2014.

The woman was admitted to the High Biological Security Unit of the Donostia University Hospital in San Sebastian in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The regional health department said she had recently returned from a trip to the Central African Republic and is in a stable condition.

Isolation

The Donostia Hospital is one of seven Spanish hospitals that have a unit with special high security and isolation resources for the treatment of Ebola. The disease is characterised by high fever, severe weakness, muscle and headache pain, as well as internal and external bleeding.

Ebola has a mortality rate of about 50%, but in some outbreaks it has reached as high as 90%.

It is transmitted to humans through wild animals and can then be transmitted between people.

IN a medical first for Spain, a baby has been born to a woman who received a uterus transplant.

The child, Jesus, was born to Tamara Franco in Barcelona, after the organ was donated to her by her sister in 2020 via a complicated operation that lasted more than 20 hours.

“It was a very tough but at the same time very beautiful process, and despite all of the risks it was worth it,”

Franco explained.

Franco, who is from Murcia, suffered from a condition called Rokitansky syndrome, which is when a woman is born with ovaries, but lacks a uterus and fallopian tubes. It is a condition that approximately one in every 5,000 women suffer.

Medical staff at the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona chose Franco as their first case for the pioneering surgery. After the procedure was