For the first time, Ebola has been transferred from person to person outside of Africa.  Spain announced that a nurse is now being treated and is in stable condition.  She helped treat two stricken Spanish priests, each of whom died in Madrid after being infected in the West African Ebola Epidemic.

Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato says the nurse started to feel ill while on holiday last week.  She was admitted to hospital with a high fever on Monday.  Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has the virus, which explains why so many doctors and nurses have died in the West African Ebola Epidemic. The nurse now hospitalized in Alcorcon was part of the team that treated 69-year old Fr. Manuel Garcia Viejo in September, and 75-year old Fr. Miguel Pajares in August.

More than 3,400 people have died in this outbreak since the beginning of the year, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. 

The Liberian man who flew to the US and then was diagnosed with Ebola is now being treated with an experimental drug.  Doctors in Dallas are using Brincidofovir, developed by the Chimerix pharmaceutical Durham, North Carolina – the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted special permission to use the as-yet unapproved treatment to try and save the life of Thomas Duncan, who was downgraded to critical condition over the weekend.

The American video journalist who caught Ebola in Liberia is now in Omaha, Nebraska for treatment.  33-year old Ashoka Mukpo believed he was infected while helping to wash a car in which someone died.  Although he has a slight fever and nausea, he walked into Nebraska Medical Center on his own power and even waved to his parents, who were observing from a safe distance.