The Spanish nurse is almost out of the woods.  Doctors say tests show that Teresa Romero is Ebola-free.  She caught the potentially deadly virus while taking care of two missionary priests who were infected in Africa and airlifted to Madrid for treatment. 

The 44-year old Romero will still have to pass one more test for the virus in order to be declared Ebola-free.  Romero’s husband and 14 other people are still under quarantine, nut none have shown signs of an infection.  Meanwhile, the west’s two other cases haven’t changed much – Dallas nurses Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson are in “fair but stable” and “stable” condition respectively.

It turns out there was never any Ebola risk aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea.  A passenger who worked at the same Dallas hospital as Pham and Vinson was in self-quarantine over Ebola fears.  Passengers used hand sanitizer and stopped shaking hands, Belize refused to allow the worker to be flown home through its international airport, and Mexico declined to let the ship’s passengers make a day trip to Cozumel.

But tests on a blood sample that was airlifted off of the Carnival Magic cruise ship turned up negative.  So, Carnival gave a US$200 all those people who had part of their holiday ruined for no reason.