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Ebola is going global.
A British man who may have contracted the deadly disease died in Macedonia, a senior Macedonian government official said Thursday, while a Spanish nurse being treated for the virus was reportedly in worse condition.
The UK government is investigating the incident, and a second Brit has shown symptoms of the disease, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, the condition of Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, has worsened after she helped care for two missionaries with Ebola who died from the disease.
'Her clinical situation has gotten worse but I cannot give any more information because that has been the expressed wish of the patient,' said Yolanda Fuentes, deputy medical director of La Paz-Carlos III Hospital in Madrid.
Her beloved dog, Excalibur, was euthanized Wednesday as a precautionary measure by medical officials amid a surge of protests from animal lovers.
Doctors in Madrid have also isolated five other people and are monitoring dozens more, according to AFP.
Spanish officials have urged calm, but it's a difficult task as the World Health Organization warned other isolated infections in Europe are 'unavoidable.'
Meanwhile, better news surfaced about a sheriff's deputy who was being tested for Ebola after going inside the apartment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first victim who succumbed to the disease in the U.S. He died Wednesday.
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Health officials in Texas, where Dallas County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Michael Monnig was being tested, said he faces 'no risk' of Ebola, according to CNN.
Monnig was placed in isolation in the same hospital where Liberian national Duncan had been treated and died.
He had joined county health officials Zachary Thompson and Christopher Perkins into the Dallas apartment where Duncan had been staying when he fell ill to get a quarantine order. None of the officials who entered the apartment wore any protective gear, according to KHOU.
Monnig said he felt sick to his stomach after visiting the apartment, and was taken to the hospital.
'He's doing exactly basically what we told him to do: If at any time you don't feel well, go seek some medical attention,' said Christoper Dyer, president of the Dallas County Sheriff's Association.
'I'm being told that he's not exhibiting classic signs of the Ebola virus,' he continued. 'It's just a matter that he doesn't feel well, and because he had contact with Mr. Duncan's apartment, they're taking every precaution.'
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