Madrid - Madrid's regional government says it's going to kill the pet dog of a Spanish woman who became infected with Ebola.
Authorities said in a statement on Tuesday that available scientific knowledge indicates there's a risk the dog could transmit the deadly virus to humans.
The Spanish nursing assistant became the first case of Ebola being transmitted outside of West Africa after she cared for a Spanish priest in Madrid who died of Ebola last month. She and her husband are now in quarantine.
The government said the dog, named Excalibur, would be euthanaised using bio-security measures that it did not specify. Its body will later be incinerated.
The government had to get a court order for the euthanaisation over the family's objections.
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