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Latest updates:
12:52 P.M. A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for an Ebola patient there has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Sunday.
The health care worker reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing, it said.
'We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility,' said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the health service. (Reuters)
Saturday's updates:
10:41 P.M. The head of the African Development Bank expressed concern on Saturday that some donors responding to the Ebola crisis were repackaging aid money, funneling it away from other areas in need in the three countries at the center for the epidemic.
In an interview, Donald Kaberuka said moving funds from already allocated development projects in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone was unhelpful in the long term and make their rebuilding harder.
'I have told donors that I hope what they are announcing is additional resources because if it isn't ...once (Ebola) is gone we will have no resources to build health care systems and continue reconstruction,' Kaberuka told Reuters on the sidelines of meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. (Reuters)
7:36 P.M. New Jersey health officials have ordered into mandatory quarantine an NBC News crew that worked with an American cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, though the group has no symptoms, its health department said on Saturday.
Freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo is receiving treatment at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, which said on Friday that he had shown modest improvement and was in stable condition. (Reuters)
6:04 P.M. Macedonia on Saturday ruled out the Ebola virus as the cause of death of a British man in the Balkan country on Thursday.
Authorities sealed off the hotel where the Briton had been staying and put 35 people in isolation when he died. (Reuters)
2:25 P.M. Three more people are under observation in a Madrid hospital, boosting the number currently being monitored for Ebola symptoms to 16. A nursing assistant infected with the virus, Teresa Romero, remains stable.
The three are a nurse who treated Romero, a hairdresser who served her and a hospital cleaner were admitted to Madrid's Carlos III hospital Friday. A government statement on Saturday said none of the 16 in quarantine - including Romero's husband, five doctors and five nurses - have shown any symptoms. (AP)
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