The World Health Organisation says the number of people infected with Ebola has risen to more than 10,000.
AN AFRICAN patient is in isolation and being tested for Ebola at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
Queensland Health authorities said the 18-year-old patient arrived from West Africa 11 days ago and had developed a fever.
"She's otherwise well and has been in home quarantine since she arrived home,'' Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.
The woman did not have any known contact with the Ebola virus but was in an area where there are a high number of confirmed cases.
Test results to confirm whether it is Ebola are expected in the early hours of Monday.
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It is understood she was moving from Guinea in West Africa to Queensland with family members. She arrived 11 days ago with eight members of her extended family and all had been placed in home quarantine immediately, Dr Young said.
The family was moving to Australia as part of the Federal Government's humanitarian refugee program.
Queensland Health knew the family was arriving, met them at the airport and arranged their quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said there was no risk to anyone on the same flight at the African woman as she did not have symptoms at that time. Pic: Marc Robertson.
Staff were checking the family's health daily and on Saturday night the 18-year-old developed a fever.
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The six children and two adults she travelled with are "quite safe" but remain in home quarantine.
"They're all perfectly well and no one else in that house has a fever," Dr Young said.
Test results expected early Monday, coupled with those from a second screening in three days, will confirm whether the woman has contracted Ebola.
Even if the woman has Ebola, other passengers from the plane are safe, Dr Young said.
"She's been here in Brisbane now for 11 days in home quarantine so there is no risk at all for anyone else on that plane," Dr young said.
The suspected Brisbane case comes after a New York doctor tested positive last week, and as an Australian man is under Ebola watch in Thailand.
"You need to have symptoms and be excreting the virus, in vomit, in faeces, in sweat, in urine and she doesn't have any symptoms so she hasn't been excreting the virus so someone could get infected."
As the woman hadn't left the house since arriving or had any visitors, there was no risk to the wider community, Dr Young said.
Her fever has abated and Dr Young said it's unlikely she has Ebola.
"But she's been in an area that there's been a significant number of cases so there's always that potential," she said.
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The Brisbane scare comes as an Australian man living in Thailand is under Ebola watch.
The man had recorded an elevated temperature and was been told to stay at his home in Thailand after returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 49 people have died of Ebola.
New York and New Jersey have ordered a mandatory quarantine for medics who treated Ebola victims in Africa.
The unnamed man returned to Thailand on October 17 from the DRC, where he works in the oil-drilling industry.
He lives in Trat province, 312km southeast of Bangkok.
Reports said Trat Hospital had been asked by the Thai public health office to prepare "to put a patient under investigation", after he recorded an elevated temperature when he was tested at Bangkok international airport.
A doctor at Trat Hospital's emergency unit said the man had been told to "remain at home" under observation, until November 5, three weeks after returning from Africa.
"He doesn't come to the hospital, he just stays at home," the doctor told AAP.
The order is in line with the mandatory 21-day quarantine for medics returning to the US who may have had contact with Ebola patients in west Africa.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC, reported by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is unrelated to the outbreak in west Africa, where nearly 10,000 people have been infected and almost 5000 have died from the virus.
In DR Congo, the CDC has reported 67 cases of Ebola and 49 deaths.
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The concerns over the Australian comes as Thai medical authorities are set to reveal the results of blood tests on a British man, 68, who was found dead in his apartment in Phuket on October 23.
The man, who had travelled from Lagos in Nigeria on October 7, went to a local hospital on October 15 after fainting. Doctors treated him for a heart condition and sent him home.
The Thai Health Department is monitoring about 25 people who had been in contact with the man.
Research scientists at Thailand's Mahidol University announced recently they were successful in developing an antibody treatment for Ebola using human gene therapy.
The Thai researchers are receiving assistance from the World Health Organisation and the US National Institute of Health to continue their research.
Thailand is closely monitoring visitors from Ebola-affected states, with more than 2400 people screened without detecting any cases.
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