David Cameron has called for European Union leaders to double their contribution to help tackle ebola, demanding a combined 1bn euro (£800m) pledge.
The Prime Minister has written to the other 26 leaders and European Council president Herman van Rompuy calling for agreement to an "ambitious package of support" at a Brussels summit next week.
He made clear his frustration that other countries are failing to shoulder their share of the burden of international efforts to deal with the epidemic in West Africa which has killed more than 4,500.
Britain has committed £125m to its contribution - the second highest sum after the US. Downing Street said the total contribution from the EU is 500m euros (£400m).
More money is needed to train at least 2,000 workers to go out to the affected regions, Mr Cameron suggested - appealing also for a "duty of care package" to be established for any that contracted ebola while working at a European-run or funded medical facility.
In his letter, the Prime Minister said: "The rapid spread of the disease and recent cases outside the West African region demonstrate the magnitude of the task at hand.
"The World Health Organisation forecast 20,000 cases in West Africa by November 2014. I believe that much more must be done."
The demand comes after the head of the World Bank warned the battle against the ebola outbreak is being lost.
Speaking after the United Nations revealed it had received less than 40% of the nearly $1bn ($600m) it had requested to fight the deadly disease, World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim blamed a lack of international solidarity for the failure to stop its spread.
"We are losing the battle," he told reporters in Paris.
"Certain countries are only worried about their own borders," he told reporters in Paris.
Meanwhile, President Obama moved to reassure the American public over ebola by revealing he hugged nurses treating patients with the virus.
"The only way that a person can contract the disease is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is already showing symptoms," he said.
"I've met and hugged some of the doctors and nurses who've treated ebola patients. I've met with an ebola patient who recovered, right in the Oval Office. And I'm fine."
International anxieties over the spread of ebola were highlighted as a cruise ship carrying a lab technician who worked with samples taken from an infected nurse in Dallas was stopped from docking in Belize and Mexico
"It is the first time that this has happened, and it was decided the ship should not dock as a preventative measure against Ebola," Erce Barron, port authority director in Quintana Roo, said.
As part of European efforts to stop the spread, France will start screening air passengers for ebola today.
Air France flight attendants have also called for a halt to all flights from Guinea, one of the three hardest-hit countries.
The US, Britain and Canada have already launched screenings at airports for passengers from ebola-hit areas.
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