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 has contracted Ebola, becoming the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa during the current epidemic.

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.

A US man who contracted Ebola while working as a freelance cameraman in Liberia has been flown back to his home country for treatment.

The parents of a US cameraman diagnosed with Ebola have said their son is in good spirits.