Encased within a plastic isolation chamber, Spanish missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo lands on home soil after being struck down with Ebola while helping victims in Sierra Leone. The priest, a medical director of the Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, was infected with the deadly disease as he tended to victims in the Western city of Lunsar. And today, dramatic images of the missionary being unloaded from a Spanish military transport plane at Torrejon de Ardoz Air Base in Madrid were released, laying bare how fearful even the most experienced of medical professionals are of the disease. In scenes that would not feel out of place in a science-fiction movie set in space, Mr Viejo was wheeled by doctors dressed from head to toe in protective bio-hazard suits to a Madrid hospital where they will battle to save his life.
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Manuel Garcia Viejo was flown home aboard a Spanish military plane
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He landed in Madrid this morning where doctors will battle to save his life
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Sierra Leone's population confined at home for 72 hours since Friday
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30,000 volunteers went door to door to educate on preventing spread
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Meanwhile it emerged families holding secret 'night burials' at night
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The idea is to conceal fact there had been an Ebola patient in household
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