A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital, authorities said.
Spain’s Health Ministry said a day earlier that it had obtained a course of the U.S.-made experimental Ebola drug ZMapp to treat Father Miguel Pajares, 75.
Pajares died Tuesday at Carlos III Hospital, the hospital and his order said. The hospital would not confirm that he had been treated with the drug, but his order said earlier that he would be.
He is one of only three Ebola patients thought to have received the experimental drug. The others are two Americans evacuated to Atlanta.

The Spanish Ministry of Defense tweeted that a specially-equipped Airbus A310 medical jet would be used to facilitate the priest’s evacuation.
The priest tested positive for Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia where he worked with patients suffering from the hemorrhagic fever, according to the Spanish aid organisation that employs him, Juan Ciudad ONGD and was isolated and quarantined in hospital in Monrovia before being evacuated by the Spanish government.
The plane, hurriedly equipped with plastic isolation tents before being dispatched from Madrid, also brought back Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe, who had worked at the same hospital, the ministry said. She has not tested postive for Ebola but is nevertheless to be isolated for treatment.
The missionaries arrived back in Madrid this past Thursday August 7th at approximately 8 am.
The dispensing of the untested and unapproved experimental treatment, ZMapp, has sparked controversy over issues of bioethics and race.  To date, only the three white Westerners positively identified with Ebola have been given the “serum”, fanning the flames of anger and resentment in the non-western world community. Nigeria has requested that the US maker provide it with ZMapp serum, although its efficacy has not been demonstrated.
The financial markets blog Zerohedge, which has been monitoring news reports of the Ebola crisis, reports that China has moved to quarantine its African nurses as the death toll of medical professionals working in the infection zones soars.