Researchers at a Portuguese medicine college are calling on the country to help Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, the Portuguese-speaking countries most at risk of Ebola, fight the spreading disease.
The Tropical Medicine College experts appealed in a document that the country should treat people diagnosed with Ebola if they request help and want to be treated in Portugal.
"The best way to combat the risk is to eliminate the problem at source," they said. "If another outbreak of Ebola is controlled and eliminated in Africa, no one else in the world, including Portugal, will have to worry about imported cases."
They proposed that Portugal should have response teams to help people infected and bring them to Portugal and should send health professionals to fight Ebola.
The Portuguese Order of Doctors, a professional association, has warned that Portugal will be the European country most at risk of Ebola unless the spread of the virus is contained.