A patient has been isolated at a Spanish hospital who is suspected of having the deadly Marburg virus, it is reported.
The disease, that carries an 88% mortality rate, is similar to Ebola and the possible case in Valencia follows an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea which has killed nine people.
Health authorities in the Valencia region have activated a contagious diseases protocol over the possibility that a 34-year-old man, who has been in Equatorial Guinea, has the virus with a biological sample sent to the Instituto de Salud Carlos lll hospital in Madrid for confirmation.
