Urgent action is needed to prevent the ebola outbreak from becoming as deadly and prolific as the AIDS virus, America's top health official has said.
Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said "it's going to be a long fight" to contain a disease that has already killed 3,900 people.
"We have to work now so that it is not the world's next AIDS," he told the heads of the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington.
"I would say that in the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS."
Mr Frieden's comments were echoed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who insisted that the world needs to put 20 times more effort into quashing the ebola virus once and for all.
Their warnings came after Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the US, died from the disease at a hospital in Texas.
Meanwhile, a Spanish nurse remains at "serious risk" after she became the first-known patient to contract ebola outside Africa.
Teresa Romero is "very ill and her life is at serious risk as a consequence of the virus", according to the Spanish government.
According to the CDC, the number of ebola cases worldwide could exceed 1.4 million by January if the world's response continues to be slower than the spread of the virus.
In Liberia, officials have had no choice but to postpone nationwide to elect a new senate.
Some three million voters were due to head to polling stations on Tuesday, but the current government believes it would be impossible for "a mass movement, deployment and gathering of people" to go ahead without endangering lives.
In neighbouring Guinea, international aid agencies have warned that their ebola treatment units have been pushed to their "physical limits", after a significant surge in the number of new patients.
There are growing concerns that the emergence of ebola cases in the US and Europe could lead to the outbreak widening far beyond Africa.
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