Ebola is 'entrenched and accelerating' in West Africa
Meanwhile in Spain, seven more people are being monitored in hospital for Ebola.
They include two hairdressers who came into contact with Teresa Romero, a Madrid nurse who looked after an Ebola patient who had been repatriated from West Africa.
Ms Romero is now very ill and reported to be at serious risk of dying.
Remember those assurances that if it came to a modern, Western country the medical professionals would bottle it up successfully right away?
Pious, confident Spain brought a sick priest back from Africa.
Despite care givers getting Ebola right and left in West Africa and themselves contributing to its spread, Spain was sure that would not happen in their own, modern medical facilities.
But one of the priest's nurses became sick.
Two doctors who looked after her became concerned.
Two hairdressers she contacted are being monitored.
This is not how it was supposed to go.
If there, why not here?
Spain seeks answers as seven more enter Ebola hospital
A hospital spokeswoman said 14 people were now under observation or being treated, including Romero's husband.
The seven new admissions late on Thursday included two hairdressers who had given Romero a beauty treatment before she was diagnosed, and hospital staff who had treated the 44-year-old nurse after she was admitted on Monday.
All had come voluntarily to be monitored for signs of the disease, although none of the 14 has so far tested positive for the disease except Romero, whose condition was described by the hospital as serious but stable.
Is this what it will be like whenever one person becomes sick?
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