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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three worst-affected countries and is accelerating in almost all settings. The BBC reports:
WHO deputy head Bruce Aylward warned that the world's response was not keeping up with the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The three countries have appealed for more aid to help fight the disease.
The outbreak has killed more than 3,860 people, mainly in West Africa. More than 200 health workers are among the victims. Speaking on Thursday, Mr Aylward said the situation was worse than it was 12 days ago.
"The disease is entrenched in the capitals, 70% of the people affected are definitely dying from this disease, and it is accelerating in almost all of the settings," he said.
Meanwhile in Spain, seven more people are being monitored in hospital for Ebola. They include two hairdressers who came into contact with Teresa Romero, a Madrid nurse looked after an Ebola patient who had been repatriated from West Africa. She is now very ill and reported to be at serious risk of dying.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died on Wednesday, underscoring questions about the quality of care he received, and the government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever. Reuters reports:
Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan died in an isolation ward of a Dallas hospital, 11 days after being admitted on Sept. 28.
The case has stirred attention and concern that someone with Ebola had been able to fly into the United States from Liberia, raising the specter more passengers could arrive and spread the disease outside of West Africa, where nearly 4,000 people have died in three impoverished countries.
The White House said extra screening for fever will be carried out for arriving passengers from West Africa. The screening will start at New York's John F. Kennedy airport from the weekend, and later be used at Newark Liberty, Washington Dulles, Chicago O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.
Duncan's death prompted questions about the timeliness of his care. The patient initially sought treatment two days before being admitted, but was sent home with antibiotics. "I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care,"
Duncan's fiancée, Louise Troh, wrote in a statement. Troh, in quarantine, added, "I am now dealing with the sorrow and anger that his son was not able to see him before he died."
Two doctors who treated a Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola have been admitted into hospital for observation, health officials say. The BBC reports:
The admissions bring to six the total number of people under quarantine at the hospital in Madrid. A spokesman for the Carlos III hospital said that so far neither of the doctors had shown Ebola symptoms.
Nurse Teresa Romero is the first person to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa. She was part of a team of about 30 staff looking after two missionaries who later died from the virus after being repatriated from West Africa.
Ms Romero told a Spanish newspaper that she might have become infected when removing her protective suit after cleaning one of the missionaries' room. Her husband is among those being monitored.
A photographer working for AFP described seeing the bodies of four children amid the carnage. Medics said dozens of people were also wounded by the blast. In the Hadramawt attack, a tank and two army vehicles were destroyed when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car at a checkpoint outside the city of Mukalla.
No group has said it was behind Thursday's bombings, but both bear the hallmarks of previous attacks by the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The jihadist group recently vowed to fight the Houthis in defence of the country's Sunni community.
