A Spanish ebola victim’s pet dog was killed last night over fears it could transmit the disease, prompting outrage from animal lovers who chanted ‘murderers’ outside the woman’s home.
Teresa Romero Ramos’s dog, Excalibur, was killled after she tested positive to the virus in her home, which was disinfected before the animal’s body was taken away in a white van to a nearby incinerator.
: A woman is helped after fainting following the exit of the van transporting Excalibur in Alcorcon, Spain
Twitter was flooded with photographs of dogs, cats and birds which were posted alongside the hashtag ‘SalvemosAExcalibur’ – Spanish for ‘Let’s save Excalibur’.
Mrs Romero Ramos, 44, from Galicia in north-west Spain, who is one of the medical team that treated two repatriated Spanish priests from West Africa who died from ebola, has been in quarantine since it was confirmed she was carrying the virus.
She has now admitted touching her face with her gloves as she took off a protective suit after leaving the room of one of the priests.
Mrs Romero Ramos confessed her accident to a doctor after earlier insisting that she had no idea how she became infected.
Mrs Ramos's husband and Excalibur
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