考研英语阅读篇章: 西班牙传教士因感染埃博拉病逝

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    考研英语阅读篇章: 西班牙传教士因感染埃博拉病逝
    A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West
Africa has died in hospital in Madrid.
    一位西班牙传教士在西非工作时感染埃博拉病毒，不久前死于马德里一家医院。
    Miguel Pajares worked at a hospital in the Liberian capital
    More than 1,000 people have died in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Nigeria since the outbreak was first reported in February.
    Miguel Pajares, 75, was airlifted back to Spain from Liberia last week with
a nun who tested negative for the virus.
    For the past few days he had been treated with an untested, experimental
drug, Zmapp.
    A World Health Organization (WHO) panel in Geneva has meanwhile approved
the ethics of using ZMapp.
    According to the Reuters news agency, the panel said it was ethical to
combat the Ebola outbreak by offering drugs or vaccines whose side-effects and
efficacy had yet to be proven.
    The priest was part of a Catholic order at St Joseph's hospital in the
Liberian capital, Monrovia.
    The hospital has now been closed because of the outbreak.
    A Congolese nun died there on Saturday, days after its director, Patrick
Nshamdze, also died.