An Ebola scare hit an unexpected place this week: a nude beach.
A boat arrived Wednesday on a Maspalomas beach in the Canary Islands,
filled with nearly two-dozen undocumented travelers, according to Reuters.
Some of the travelers had fevers, prompting officials to initiate their
own Ebola protocol, isolating the migrants on the beach for five hours
as nude tourists looked on.
Officials in masks asked the travelers whether they had been to one of
the West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak, but
eventually determined none of them had Ebola, according to Spanish newspaper El País.
Four of the sickest people in the group were hospitalized for other
reasons, and the rest were transported in a beach garbage truck to begin
the deportation process, according to the newspaper.
The Canary Islands are a territory of Spain off the northwest coast of Africa.
Officials also burned the boat the migrants arrived in, the newspaper reported.
According to the latest case counts from the World Health Organization,
13,268 people in West Africa have become infected with Ebola since the
outbreak began in March. Of those, 4,960 people have died. These numbers
are underestimates, the organization has said.
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