A major international push has been announced to intensify efforts to contain the ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says urgent action is needed to prevent the disease spreading to 15 African countries.
More than 4,500 are now known to have died from the virus, which has sparked a series of alerts across Europe and the United States.
The human cost of the illness to some families in Sierra Leone is laid bare in a series of harrowing accounts of its impact.
Dr Isabelle Nuttall, the WHO's global director, said cases were doubling every four weeks.
She said health officials were trying to prevent the virus spreading from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to neighbouring countries.
Those most at risk were listed as Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, DR Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Sudan and Togo.
Dr Nuttall said: "The objective is to stop the transmission from occurring in these countries. They may not have a case but after one case we don't want more. These countries need to be better prepared."
A team of 91 British medics, including nurses, doctors and infectious disease consultants, has arrived in Sierra to work at a UK-supported treatment centre.
The facility has 12 out of 92 beds set aside for healthcare workers who risk infection while treating others.
The UK's Chief Medical Officer told a COBRA meeting that the risk to the UK "remained low".
A Downing Street spokesman said those present focused on how to help halt the virus' spread."There was a discussion over the need for the international community to do much more to support the fight against the disease in the region," he said.
"This included greater co-ordination of the international effort, an increase in the amount of spending and more support for international workers who were, or who were considering, working in the region."
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