A medical worker (top, 3rd R) takes the temperature of a would-be immigrant at Maspalomas beach on Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands November 5, 2014. Some 21 would-be immigrants arrived in a fishing boat on their way to European soil from Africa, Sp
A medical worker (top, 3rd R) takes the temperature of a would-be immigrant at Maspalomas beach on Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands November 5, 2014. Some 21 would-be immigrants arrived in a fishing boat on their way to European soil from Africa, Spanish police said. Reuters/Borja Suarez
A medical worker (top, 3rd R) takes the temperature of a would-be immigrant at Maspalomas beach on Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands November 5, 2014. Some 21 would-be immigrants arrived in a fishing boat on their way to European soil from Africa, Spanish police said. REUTERS/Borja Suarez (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION HEALTH)

Naked beachgoers in three Canary Islands panicked with the arrival of a migrant boat from Africa at the Gran Canaria beach. It wasn't so much the island being a stepping stone from people escaping from the continent's poverty but the fact that some of the 19 migrants have complained of Ebola-like symptoms.

Some of the 19 migrants came from Ebola-hit nations such as Sierra Leone and Guinea. To protect the nude sunbathers - who probably wished that they wore hazmat suits at that time - the Red Cross kept the new arrivals on a temporary quarantine by having them board a dump truck and ferried them away to a holding facility for processing, the New York Post reports.

San Bartolome Mayor Marco Aurelio Perez explained that dump trucks were used instead of ambulances because the beach is remote it would need several ambulance trips to bring all the migrants out of the nudist beach.

The Red Cross staff, who wore protective gear made up of breathing masks and gloves, first created a cordon around the migrants and took their temperatures. One had a temperature of 40 degrees

Tests found that the migrants, made up of 17 men and 2 women, didn't have the dreaded Ebola virus, but four of them had to be hospitalised.

To reach the naturist beach, Maspalomas, nudists must walk for 2 miles across sand dunes. Unfortunately for the nudists, the island is considered an established destination among migrants, said Perez, who noted that "illegal immigration has become a common sight in the West."

There is a suggestion to burn the migrant boat to protect Spain from the spread of Ebola which has so far killed 4,818 people

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