A Spanish nurse has become the first person to contract ebola outside of West Africa, amid an outbreak that has killed more than 3,400 people.
The woman was part of a medical team at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital that treated two missionaries, who died shortly after being repatriated from Africa with the disease.
It comes as US President Barack Obama said his administration was beefing up airport screening measures in the country to help identify people who might have the deadly virus.
Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, said an emergency protocol had been put in place and authorities were working to establish the source of the contagion at the Madrid hospital.
"We are working to guarantee the safety of all citizens," she said.
Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, was infected with ebola in Liberia and died at the hospital on 12 August.
Another Spanish missionary, Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, was repatriated from Sierra Leone and died at the hospital on 25 September.
Both were members of a Roman Catholic group that runs a charity working with ebola victims in Africa.
A Spanish health official said 30 medical staff who treated the two priests are being monitored.
The infected nurse began to feel ill on 30 September, but did not go to hospital until Sunday complaining of a fever.
The assistant nurse, who is married without children, is being treated in isolation at a hospital in a southern Madrid suburb.
Health authorities are trying to track down all the people she may have come in contact with since she contracted the disease.
She is said to be in a stable condition.
Sky's Health and Science Correspondent Thomas Moore said it is the first time the virus has been transmitted outside West Africa during the current epidemic.
Meanwhile, Mr Obama announced tougher screening measures after meeting health and security officials who are involved in attempting to prevent an outbreak of the disease in the US.
He told reporters the chance of an outbreak in the US was "extraordinarily low", but that there was not a large margin for error.
The White House is not currently proposing a travel ban for West Africa, epicentre of the outbreak.
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