The unnamed worker tested positive after coming down with a low grade fever on Friday night.
It comes just days after Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US, died on Wednesday.
The diagnosis will raise further fears about the outbreak spreading beyond Africa where it has already killed more than 3,400 people.
Officials at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed the results of the preliminary test last night.
A statement said further checks would be carried out by the specialist Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said officials have "been preparing for this possibility."
I have little doubt that eventually there will be a case of Ebola in this country and probably in this city.London Mayor Boris Johnson.
About 48 people with whom Duncan had been in contact were already being monitored.
The Liberian national became ill after arriving in Texas City from the African country on September 20 to visit family.
His death sparked tighter controls at airports to try to contain the disease.
The British expert in charge of the United Nations response to Ebola said last night he hopes the spread will be “under control” in three months.
However, London Mayor Boris Johnson said it is inevitable a case of the disease will happen in Britain.
He said: "I have little doubt that eventually there will be a case of Ebola in this country and probably in this city."
Mr Johnson added that airport screening was “far from a perfect solution” to containing the outbreak.
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