A Madrid airport has activated emergency measures after a passenger arriving on an Air France flight was suspected of having Ebola. The passenger on Air France 1300 from Lagos, Nigeria, had started shaking during the flight which landed at Barajas International Airport in the Spanish capital. Air France said the other passengers disembarked from the plane, which was flying via Paris. The plane will now be disinfected and the return flight has been cancelled.
Spain's health ministry confirmed that an Ebola emergency protocol had been set in motion but declined to give details. There had been 163 people on board the flight. Spain's government has stepped up its response to suspected Ebola cases in the wake of a health scare when a nurse in Madrid became the first person outside Africa to become infected with the deadly disease in the current outbreak.
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