African health ministers will nominate a new expert to lead the WHO's regional office for a 5-year term.
The guidance prioritizes protecting mucosal areas and hand hygiene.
Guidance ranges from advising against travel to banning it, with a possible impact of limiting volunteers.
A Maine nurse defies a state order, while a returning Texas nurse agrees to home quarantine.
WHO official is "cautiously optimistic" that an apparent slowing of disease activity there is real.
President Obama says policies based on fear rather science could discourage volunteers.
The CDC unveils more specific guidance for monitoring those entering the US.
Mixed news on Ebola: case confirmation in NYC doctor, nurse released from hospital, and concern over Mali case.
An efficacy trial could start in Liberia in December, according to WHO.
Mali's health minister announced the nation's first Ebola infection, and New York City said that a health worker who returned from West Africa has a suspected case.
