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The first European to become infected by the Ebola virus has died in Spain.
Priest Miguel Pajares, 75, died at a hospital in Madrid, a spokesperson confirmed today.
He contracted the deadly disease while working for a charity organisation in Liberia.
The epidemic has now killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa.
A colleague of Miguel Pajares, nun Juliana Bohi, was also repatriated but tested negative for the disease.
The Ebola virus was first detected in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and possibly Nigeria.
The majority of Ebola victims are Africans, and some nations have protested that their citizens are not getting access to the experimental drugs.
Mr Parajes was reportedly given a treatment never tested in humans, but this has not been confirmed by the hospital.
The UN has ordered that experimental drugs and vaccines be used in a bid to halt the epidemic.
Priest Miguel Pajares, 75, died at a hospital in Madrid, a spokesperson confirmed today.
He contracted the deadly disease while working for a charity organisation in Liberia.
The epidemic has now killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa.
A colleague of Miguel Pajares, nun Juliana Bohi, was also repatriated but tested negative for the disease.
The Ebola virus was first detected in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and possibly Nigeria.
The majority of Ebola victims are Africans, and some nations have protested that their citizens are not getting access to the experimental drugs.
Mr Parajes was reportedly given a treatment never tested in humans, but this has not been confirmed by the hospital.
The UN has ordered that experimental drugs and vaccines be used in a bid to halt the epidemic.
"In the particular circumstances of this outbreak and provided certain conditions are met, the panel reached consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention," the UN said in a statement.
The panel said "more detailed analysis and discussion" are needed to decide how to achieve fair distribution in communities and among countries, since there is an extremely limited supply of the experimental drugs and vaccines.
Mr Pajares had been helping to treat people with Ebola at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia when he became ill, and was evacuated to Spain.
He worked for the San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Spain-based Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world.
Meanwhile, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has suspended all travel by executive branch officials for one month.
She also ordered those already abroad to return home within a week "or be considered as abandoning their jobs", according to a statement from her press secretary.
Most airlines flying in and out of the Liberian capital of Monrovia have suspended flights amid the unprecedented health crisis.
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