A second nurse at the Texas hospital where the first case of Ebola contamination on US soil occurred has tested positive for the disease.
Amber Vinson came down with a fever yesterday and was immediately isolated at the hospital.
"Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the health department said in a statement.
The US Centers for Disease Control confirmed that Ms Vinson travelled by air on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth the day before she reported symptoms, and has asked all 132 passengers on the flight to call a hotline.
Crew members on board said the nurse displayed no symptoms during the flight.
Two nurses who cared for Thomas Duncan, who is thought to have contracted the disease while still in Liberia, and who died at Texas Presbyterian Hospital on 8 October, have now tested positive for Ebola.
The CDC has already confirmed that the first nurse, Nina Pham, tested positive for the virus, despite wearing full protective gear while she cared for Mr Duncan.
CDC director Dr Thomas Frieden said a breach in safety protocols, possibly while removing protective gear, may have caused them to contract the virus.
Meanwhile, a top UN official has warned that the world is falling behind in a desperate race to gain the upper hand over the deadly Ebola outbreak.
The latest death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak ever is 4,447, from 8,914 recorded infection cases.
The three hardest-hit countries are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
"Ebola got a head start on us," said Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).
"It is far ahead of us, it is running faster than us, and it is winning the race," he told the UN Security Council in New York, by remote link from UNMEER headquarters in Ghana.
"If Ebola wins, we the peoples of the United Nations lose so very much.
"We either stop Ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan."
He said that with infection rates rising exponentially every day, UNMEER will need 7,000 beds for treatment.
"There's much bad news about Ebola but the good news is we know how to stop it," Mr Banbury added.
However, to push back the spread "we must defeat Ebola and we must do it fast.
"With every day that passes, the number of sick people increases.
"Time is our biggest enemy. We must use every minute of every day to our advantage and that is what UNMEER is doing."
WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward said the epidemic "could reach 5,000 to 10,000 cases per week by the first week of December", but described his figures as a working forecast.
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