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SPAIN-SIERRA LEONE-HEALTH-WAFRICA-EBOLA

A handout photo taken and released on September 21, 2014 by the Spanish Defence Ministry shows a military medical team transferring, from Freetown airport in Sierra Leone to Spain, Roman Catholic missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo who contracted the deadly Ebola virus. Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, director of a hospital in the Sierra Leonean town of Lunsar, “has tested positive (for Ebola) and has expressed his desire to be transferred to Spain”, the health ministry said in a statement. He is the second Spaniard to contract Ebola in the current outbreak. AFP PHOTO / SPANISH DEFENCE MINISTRY

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