By Sky News US Team
The first man diagnosed with ebola in the US has died and a second patient linked to the case is being tested for the disease.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Thomas Eric Duncan was treated, said he had "succumbed to an insidious disease, ebola. He fought courageously in this battle."
The Liberian national picked up the virus in his country before flying last month to Texas, where he fell ill and was admitted to the Dallas hospital.
Later on Wednesday a patient in the Dallas suburb of Frisco was taken to hospital to be tested for ebola, though officials said he was a "very minimal risk".
Local media named him as a sheriff's deputy who had gone into Mr Duncan's apartment and had contact with members of his family.
The current ebola outbreak in West Africa, the deadliest in history, has now killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases, said the World Health Organization.
The White House meanwhile confirmed passengers from West Africa would have their temperatures taken upon arrival at five major US airports.
The screening will start at JFK in New York, Newark in New Jersey, Washington Dulles, Chicago's O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
As news of Mr Duncan's death emerged, Secretary of State John Kerry was appealing for nations to "step up" their response to the outbreak.
Speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, he said more money, equipment and personnel were urgently needed.
He said it was essential for airlines to keep flying to West Africa and for borders to remain open to allow for the movement of assistance and medical staff.
Mr Duncan's fiancee, Louise Troh, paid tribute to him as a "wonderful man" in a statement.
"His suffering is over," she said. "My family is in deep sadness and grief, but we leave him in the hands of God."
His family said they had visited him on Tuesday at the hospital, but declined to view him via video link because his condition was too "disturbing".
Mr Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, said he and his mother had been unable to sleep after seeing Mr Duncan's face during a previous visit.
He was being treated with an experimental drug and had been on a breathing machine while receiving kidney dialysis.
US authorities were monitoring nearly 50 people who came into contact with him.
Mr Duncan arrived in Texas on 20 September and went to the Dallas hospital on 24 September after falling ill, but was sent home with antibiotics.
By 27 September, his condition had worsened and an ambulance took him back to the hospital, where he was placed in isolation.
Meanwhile, US doctor Kent Brantly, who survived ebola, has donated blood to an NBC cameraman who is fighting the disease at a Nebraska hospital, the broadcaster said.
In Spain, a nurse is in quarantine after she apparently touched her face with a glove tainted with the virus while treating a missionary who had contracted the disease. She is the first person to contract the disease outside Africa.
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