[LATIMES] A 75-year-old Spanish priest suffering from the Ebola virus died Tuesday in an isolation ward in Madrid -- the first European death from the outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa and the first known death on European soil.Miguel Pajares died around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, Spanish officials announced.
A Roman Catholic missionary, Pajares was airlifted Aug. 7 from Liberia, where he is believed to have contracted the deadly virus at a hospital where he worked. Thousands of Spaniards had joined a social media campaign urging their government to rescue and repatriate him. He was the first Ebola patient evacuated to Europe amid the current, fast-spreading outbreak in Africa, which is already the worst in history.