More Ebola cases in quarantine in Madrid

(Date: Thursday, Oct 09) MADRID – Spanish radio, RNE, Cadena Ser, and he BBC report this morning that there is a group of some six people under observation for the Ebola virus, though none are confirmed. In the meantime the matter has taken a political turn (as usual here), with nurses unions accusing the hospital authorities and the Minister for Health, Ana Mato, whose resignation is being demanded by the opposition parties, of bad management. The unions say that Teresa, the first person in Europe to contract the virus outside Africa, is not at fault when the suit and gloves she was wearing did not meet established requirements.  Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is standing behind his minister. Others are taking the matter to court. Brussels, in the meantime, has woken up and is trying to expand its control efforts at European borders, while the US is establishing more intensive controls, including taking temperatures at their major airports, especially those with flights to and from Africa.