Madrid authorities evacuated an Air France plane on Thursday after a passenger started shaking on the flight to Madrid from Lagos via Paris, prompting fears the person had Ebola, Air France and airports operator Aena said.
The passenger was taken to Madrid's Carlos III Hospital in an ambulance flanked by a police motorcade, television images showed. The driver was wearing full protective suit and goggles.
Passengers at the airport told Reuters the plane was parked on the tarmac surrounded by emergency services and people in white protective gear. Air France said the plane would be disinfected and the return flight was cancelled.
"There were police cars, there was an ambulance .. there was also the fire brigade and people in white suits," said passenger Bronween Bashford, who had been waiting to board the plane in Madrid. "There was a lot of activity out on the tarmac."
The nurse, Teresa Romero, was diagnosed with the virus last week after caring for two infected priests who were repatriated from West Africa and later died. She is still seriously ill but stable, also in Carlos III Hospital.
