News: Getting really scary: Ebola hits Paris & Brazil?

Fears are growing that the deadly Ebola virus has hit a new continent as a man in Brazil undergoes tests for the infection.

If the Brazilian case is confirmed, it would mean the disease has spread to South America for the first time.

It comes as it was revealed that a female patient is also observation in Paris following tests for Ebola.

The suspected patient in Brazil is a 47-year-old man from Guinea, one of the African countries that has been ravaged by the disease.

He was taken in an air force plane from the southern state of Parana to the National Infectious Disease Institute in Rio de Janeiro this morning, Friday October 10. 

It came after he arrived at a health centre in the town of Cascavel with a fever the previous afternoon. 

The man is thought to have arrived in Brazil from Africa on September 19 from the Guinean capital Conakry after flying to Argentina, with a layover in Morocco, then travelled overland to Brazil, seeking refugee status. 

It is not yet confirmed if he has Ebola.

Meanwhile it is expected that French medics will establish later today of an unnamed woman in Paris has been infected by Ebola.