WHO: Spain’s Ebola case won’t be last in Europe

By JORGE SAINZMARIA CHENG

Published October 8, 2014 6:45pm ET

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WHO: Spain’s Ebola case won’t be last in Europe — Medical staff wearing protective clothing arrives at the apartment building of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Officials said a nurse and a nursing assistant have been placed under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital where a colleague became infected after working with two Spanish missionary priests who contracted the disease in West Africa and later died at the center. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) | Andres Kudacki

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish nursing assistant may be the first person in the ongoing epidemic to catch Ebola outside of Africa, but she probably won’t be the last, experts warn.

Still, even as more people with Ebola arrive on European shores, the continent’s sophisticated health systems, legions of doctors and nurses, and preparedness plans will probably squash any big outbreaks of the lethal virus.

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