By Sky News US Team
The first man diagnosed with ebola in the US has died amid calls for countries to "step up" their response to the outbreak.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Thomas Eric Duncan was being treated, said he "succumbed to an insidious disease, ebola. He fought courageously in this battle."
The Liberian national picked up the virus in his country before flying to Texas, where he fell ill and was admitted to the Dallas hospital.
As news of Mr Duncan's death was released, Secretary of State John Kerry was making an urgent appeal for nations to "step up" their response to the outbreak.
Speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Mr Kerry said more money, equipment and personnel are needed now.
He said it is 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.
The White House meanwhile confirmed that passengers from West Africa would have their temperatures taken upon arrival at five major US airports.
The screening - at JFK in New York, Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, Washington Dulles, Chicago's O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta - is expected to begin as early as this weekend.
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 over video 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 are monitoring about 50 people who came into contact with him.
Mr Duncan arrived in Texas on 20 September and went to the Dallas hospital emergency room 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.
There is no approved treatment for ebola and no vaccine against the virus.
The current outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest in history, and has already killed nearly 3,500 people.
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