News: Confirmed: Spanish nurse is first person in the world to contract Ebola outside of Africa + Husband in quarantine

A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has become the first person in the world to contract the deadly virus outside of Africa.

The 44-year-old is said to have spent the last 15 years working at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, where the two Spanish missionaries infected with Ebola died.

The woman, who is married, was part of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who was brought back from Africa last month so that he could be treated for the deadly virus.

Health officials have quarantined her husband.

The nurse, who has not yet been named but identified as married with no children, had helped to treat two priests who contracted Ebola in Africa and were repatriated to Spain.

Some 30 other health workers and those who came in contact with her are now being monitored for symptoms, but officials say they 'don't know' how she was infected.  

Medical staff could be seen removing the woman on an enclosed stretcher out of the ambulance last night