Normally, about the worst thing you might expect at a nude beach would be the sight of some really ugly bodies, or maybe a painful sunburn in areas of your body that would be hard to explain.
European tourists at Maspalomas beach on Gran Canaria Island, were ready to trade their birthday suits for Hazmat suits this past week when a boat load of illegal immigrants from West Africa came ashore.
Some of the 19 migrants on board were from Sierra Leone and Guinea, two of the West African countries ravaged by Ebola, and four were sick enough to be hospitalized. The rest were hauled away to a makeshift quarantine in a garbage truck.
A number of the Africans showed symptoms of fever, and local Red Cross workers made the decision to employ emergency Ebola procedures, leaving face masks, food and water 50 yards away from the boats and the immigrants, who were kept isolated on the beach for 7 hours. Those not taken to the hospital were hauled away in a garbage truck, and all face deportation back to their countries of origin.
The boat the immigrants arrived in was burned.
Illegal immigration is becoming a growing problem in the Canary Islands as Africans come hoping for a better life in Spain.
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