Three more people have been placed under quarantine for Ebola at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nurse became infected, while more than 50 other people are being monitored.

A nurse in Spain who cared for an Ebola patient has come down with the disease, the first known transmission outside West Africa during the current epidemic.

Spain has quarantined the husband of a Spanish nurse who has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the first known transmission outside West Africa.

A Spanish nurse who treated two ebola victims at a hospital in Madrid has contracted the virus herself in the first case of contagion outside of Africa, health officials said.