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U.S. President Barack Obama says he will consider appointing an additional person to lead the government's Ebola response.

It's believed to be a concession to some congressional lawmakers' criticism after three people were diagnosed with the deadly disease on American soil.

Lawmakers are also calling for a travel ban from West Africa to the United States.

Obama has not turn down the calls, while saying a travel ban wouldn't be effective.

"The problem is in all the discussions I have had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures we are currently instituting."

Several schools in Texas are closed amid concerns that people with ties to the schools may have shared the flight with a nurse carrying Ebola.

European Union nations are promising to reinforce passenger screening for Ebola at airports in the hardest-hit West African nations.

EU health chief Tonio Borg says they are also going to coordinate a common approach at EU entry points.

"Member states intend to better coordinate the national measures at entry points, in particular for direct connections at airports and ports.

A man travelling on an Air France plane was taken to hospital in Spain after showing Ebola symptoms.

On Thursday, a total of four people were hospitalized in Spain as suspected Ebola patients, two of whom then tested negative for the virus.

In Colombia, a hospital plan in place to deal with any potential Ebola patients.

It comes a day after the government announced it would not allow entry by anyone requiring visas who has travelled to five West African nations.

Travelers who lie in a questionnaire about the deadly disease of Ebola on arrival at Colombia's airports might face a prison sentence between four and eight years.

As more countries are raising Ebola agendas, the United Nations is calling for the protection of human rights.

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"Underestimating the critical importance of human rights - in particular the right to health, to education, to sanitation, to development and to good governance - played in creating this crisis in the first place has barely been discussed."

The World Health Organization says the number of people who are contracting Ebola is currently doubling every three to four weeks, adding that it will take months before the outbreak is stopped.

For CRI, I'm Cao Yuwei.