Hospital officials in Spain are saying that the condition of a nurse quarantined with Ebola has worsened.
Yolanda Fuentes, an official at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid says of Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos, 44: "Her clinical situation has deteriorated but I can't give any more information due to the express wishes of the patient."
Romero was admitted to the hospital earlier this week after she was apparently infected by a contaminated glove she was using in the treatment of another Ebola patient who later died.
The latest news comes a day after the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, a 42-year-old Liberian man who was being treated for the disease in Dallas. It also follows an announcement from Washington that screening of passengers arriving from West Africa at five major U.S. airports, would be stepped up.
As we reported on Wednesday, new screening measures for the disease will go into effect at JFK in New York, Newark, Chicago's O'Hare airport, Washington Dulles and Atlanta's Hartsfield airport. The White House says 94 percent of all travelers arriving in the U.S. from the worst Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, arrive via those five airports.
Also today, the U.S. military says it is ramping up its aid efforts in Liberia.
"Two different flights of MV-22 Osprey and KC-130 aircraft, along with U.S. Marines, will arrive to support the whole-of-government effort to contain Ebola," U.S. Army Capt. R. Carter Langston told The Associated Press in an email.
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