一名澳大利亞護士接受埃博拉病毒檢測

An Australian nurse is undergoing medical tests after showing possible signs of Ebola, as the international community continues efforts to limit the outbreak of the virus.

Queensland state chief health officer Jeanette Young says the 57-year-old woman developed a "low-grade fever" shortly after returning from Sierra Leone, where she was working with Ebola patients.

Test results are expected to be released Friday. Young stressed that even if the woman does have Ebola, there is no reason for the public to be concerned about an outbreak.

The development comes a day after the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in Dallas, Texas following ten days of treatment.

Thomas Eric Duncan arrived in Dallas last month (on September 20) from his native Liberia, the epicenter of the West African Ebola outbreak.

President Barack Obama says fighting Ebola is a national security priority. He said: "What's true is we have unique capabilities that nobody else has and as a consequence of us getting in early building that platform we're now able to leverage resources from other countries and move with speed and effectiveness to curb that epidemic"

The president also says new screening measures for travelers coming from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will be put in place at five major U.S. airports.

Customs officials will quiz passengers about their travel in West Africa, take their temperatures, and observe them for other signs of Ebola.

Anyone with a fever or showing any other symptoms will be passed on to medical authorities for a detailed evaluation.一名澳大利亞護士在出現埃博拉症狀之後，正在進行醫學檢測。與此同時，國際社會繼續努力阻止這種病毒的蔓延。

澳大利亞昆士蘭州的衛生主管簡妮特·揚表示，今年57歲的這名女性在塞拉利昂爲埃博拉病人工作回國後不久，出現低度的發燒。

測試結果預計星期五宣佈。揚強調說，即使這名女性感染了埃博拉，公衆也不必擔心疫情會爆發。

出現事態最新進展的一天之前，在美國德州達拉斯被確診的首名埃博拉病人，經過10天的治療之後喪生。

托馬斯·鄧肯上個月20號從他的祖籍國利比里亞返回美國。利比里亞是西非埃博拉疫情爆發的中心地區。

奧巴馬總統表示，抗擊埃博拉是一項事關國家安全的當務之急。他說：“真實情況是，我們有別的國家沒有的特殊能力，由於我們及早動手構建這個平臺，所以我們現在能夠從其他國家調動資源，迅速有效地遏制這場疫情擴散。”

奧巴馬總統還表示，針對來自幾內亞、利比里亞和塞拉利昂旅客的新檢測措施將在美國的五大主要機場實施。

海關官員將詢問旅客在西非旅行的情況，並檢測旅客的體溫，觀察他們是否有埃博拉症狀。

任何具有發燒或者顯示出其它症狀的旅客將被移交醫療當局進行詳細評估。