A Spanish nurse has become the first person to be infected with ebola outside of Africa. She was part of the team who treated two priests, Manuel Garcia Viejo and Miguel Pajares, who died of the disease despite being transferred back to Europe for treatment.
The nurse was admitted to hospital in Alcorcon, near Madrid, on Monday morning with a high fever, she said.
"Both the health ministry and public health authorities are working together to give the best care to the patient and to guarantee the safety of all citizens," the minister told a news conference.
Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, died in the hospital Carlos III de Madrid on 25 September after catching Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Miguel Pajares, 75, died in August after contracting the virus in Liberia
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In a separate development, a report suggests a 75% chance of ebola reaching France by later this month and a 50% chance that it will reach Britain. Most of the countries so far affected are francophone and there are many contacts with France. Heathrow is one of the world's busiest international hub airports with contacts to Sierra Leone and Nigeria as Commonwealth nations.
But Alex Vespignani, a professor at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston who led the research, said the risks change every day the epidemic continues.
He told Reuters: "This is not a deterministic list, it's about probabilities - but those probabilities are growing for everyone.
"It's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."
The latest calculations used data from October 1.
"Air traffic is the driver," Mr Vespignani said. "But there are also differences in connections with the affected countries (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone), as well as different numbers of cases in these three countries - so depending on that, the probability numbers change."
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Restricting air travel reduces but does not eliminate the risks.