The US government plans to request that federally funded laboratories suspend all work on potentially dangerous pathogens for about 24 hours to inventory stocks of microbes, ScienceInsider reported today.
The first patient in the DRC's Ebola outbreak caught the virus from a dead animal, making any link to West Africa's outbreak unlikely.
The WHO sent a team to a hot spot where one of its Ebola workers was infected.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday released guidance for handling the bodies of patients who die from Ebola infections. The advice is aimed at those performing postmortem care in US hospitals and mortuaries.
The WHO has heightened concerns about the impact the outbreak is having on frontline workers and the prospects of overseas help.
Ebola has struck the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but authorities say it is not the same strain as in West Africa.
As West Africa's Ebola toll climbed by 142 cases and 77 deaths, the WHO conceded that the size of the epidemic has been underestimated.
Two medical missionaries are out of the hospital, leaving lessons for clinicians on treating the disease.
The WHO said service suspensions by shippers are starting to squeeze food and fuel supplies in Ebola-affected countries.
The WHO said it saw some signs of improving control efforts and public awareness in Nigeria and Guinea.
