By Sky News US Team
Barack Obama has said his administration is working on tougher airport screening measures to help identify people who might have ebola.
The President made the announcement 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.
He said: "We're also going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screening, both at the source and here in the United States."
The White House is not currently proposing a travel ban for West Africa, epicentre of the outbreak.
But Mr Obama said he would step up pressure on wealthy countries to contribute aid to those countries struggling to contain the spread of the disease.
In a reminder of the risks facing medical professionals, a nurse who treated an ebola patient in Madrid, Spain, became the first person to contract ebola outside of West Africa.
Earlier on Monday, an NBC News cameraman who contracted ebola in Liberia became the fifth American to return to the US after contracting the disease.
Ashoka Mukpo, 33, who began feeling unwell last week, was flown out of the country and admitted to a hospital isolation unit in Omaha, Nebraska.
Meanwhile, the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the US, a Liberian national, remains in a critical condition at a hospital in Dallas.
Thomas Eric Duncan became ill after arriving in Texas from Liberia two weeks ago.
He is receiving an experimental drug, brincidofovir, which was developed by a North Carolina-based pharmaceutical company.
Health officials said they were closely monitoring 10 people who had direct contact with him and another 38 people who potentially had contact with him.
So far none has shown any symptoms, according to the officials.
Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said earlier that officials were looking at all options "to see what we can do to increase safety of all Americans".
He said extra screening might include checking travellers to see if they have a fever, then evaluating them further if they do.
Ebola symptoms, which include fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding, generally appear between two and 21 days after infection.
The outbreak is believed to have killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa and has taken the biggest toll in Liberia.
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