The man, who had arrived at Madrid-Barajas airport on a flight from the Turkish city of Istanbul on October 18, succumbed to the symptoms of a cocaine overdose and started shaking on the floor, Russia Today (RT) reported on Saturday.
However, nobody approached the man for at least 50 minutes as he was thought to be an Ebola patient.
Airport officials reportedly called medical specialists who found the man “unconscious with a weak pulse and suffering breathing difficulties.”
Minutes later, it turned out that the man was not infected with the virus, and finally, he was taken to hospital. It was, however, too late and he died 25 minutes after arriving at hospital.
His wife said the Nigerian had not travelled to his homeland in the last four years.
Ebola is a form of hemorrhagic fever whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat. It can be also spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has infected 10,141 and claimed 4,922 lives so far.
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have taken the brunt of the spread of the disease, which is running amok in West Africa.
The media hype over Ebola comes at a time when thousands of people in Africa and other parts of the world die every day from hunger and preventable diseases. Mainstream Western media, however, pay very little attention to such issues.
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