Ebola nurse fighting for her life as crisis grows

A Madrid nurse infected with ebola fought for her life last night as across the world authorities tightened screening of travellers and contain public panic over the spread of contagion.

Seven more people turned themselves in late on Thursday to an ebola isolation unit in Madrid where Teresa Romero, the nurse whobecame the first person to contract ebola outside Africa, lay gravely ill.

Alarm about ebola’s spread around Europe grew as Macedonia said it was checking for the virus in a British man who died within hours of being admitted to hospital in the capital Skopje on Thursday. A Prague hospital was testing a 56-year-old Czech man with symptoms of the virus.