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Ebola: 3 more people under observation in Spain

By Harold Heckle
Published October 11, 2014 2:44pm ET
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Ebola: 3 more people under observation in Spain
Medical practitioners wearing protective clothing work while Javier Limon, the husband of the nursing assistant infected with Ebola, is seen through a window, down left, while another isolated girl talks on her phone inside an isolated ward on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. A Spanish hospital official says the nursing assistant infected with Ebola is "stable," hours after authorities described her condition as critical. She is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. She contracted the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) | Daniel Ochoa de Olza

MADRID (AP) — Three more people were under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital, boosting the number being monitored for symptoms to 16. A nursing assistant infected with the virus remained in serious but stable condition Saturday.

The latest three are a nurse who came into contact with nursing assistant Teresa Romero, a hairdresser who attended to her and a hospital cleaner, all of whom were admitted to Madrid’s Carlos III hospital late Friday.

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