A 57 year old woman is being tested for ebola in Australia, after returning from Sierra Leone, where she worked as a nurse.
It comes as the Defence Minister Simon Coveney is expected to brief Cabinet tomorrow on how prepared Ireland is for an outbreak.
The US is to begin screening for the virus at some of its airports - after the first patient diagnosed with the virus in America died yesterday.
Passengers arriving from west Africa will have their temperature tested at five American airports from this weekend.
