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US, UN leaders urge ‘more robust’ fight against Ebola

US health authorities said the United States must “rethink” its approach to Ebola after a female nurse in Texas contracted the tropical virus, in the first case of contamination on US soil and the second outside Africa.

Health authorities said the nurse — identified by local media as 26 year old Nina Pham — tested positive after caring for a Liberian Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on Wednesday.

The nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is in isolation and said to be in stable condition.

Experts still do not know exactly how the woman was infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

“We have to rethink the way we approach Ebola infection control because even a single infection is unacceptable,” said CDC director Tom Frieden.

However, he gave few specifics about what precisely was going to change.

Meanwhile, Canada announced it would begin testing an experimental vaccine, VSV EBOV, on humans. The first results will be available in December, according to Health Minister Rona Ambrose.

And European Union ministers called a meeting for Thursday to discuss screening travellers from west Africa, in line with steps taken by Britain, the United States and Canada.

In Spain, a crisis cell set up when Madrid nurse Teresa Romero fell sick after caring for two missionaries with Ebola said the nurse remained in a “very serious condition”.

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Fifteen other people are under observation in a Madrid hospital for symptoms of the disease, which include fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding.

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