- Doctors Without Borders says West Africa not ready to handle Ebola
- Airports and airlines placed on high alert to prevent disease reaching UKAnyone who slips through will be held in highly secure hospital units
- Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond declares outbreak 'a very serious threat'
- Some experts predict 30,000 people could become infected in west Africa
President Ernest Bai Koroma said the measures resembled a tough anti-Ebola package announced by neighbouring Liberia last night.
Koroma also announced he was cancelling a visit to Washington for a U.S.-Africa summit next week because of the crisis.
The move came as world's premier health charity issued a grave warning about the likely spread of the deadly Ebola virus - an epidemic it fears 'can only get worse'.
Doctors Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) says the threat of the disease spreading beyond western Africa, where it was first detected in Guinea in February, is frighteningly real and said it was 'absolutely out of control'.
![Crisis: A Médecins Sans Frontières medic treats a suspected Ebola patient in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, where a public health emergency has been declared in an effort to stop the spread of the disease](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/31/article-2711325-2021909B00000578-224_634x431.jpg)
![On high alert: The president of Sierra Leone said the police and military would restrict movements to and from epicentres and provide support to health workers to do their work unhindered](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/31/article-2711325-2021911000000578-280_634x423.jpg)
!['Can only get worse': Of the 672 deaths, the highest number was in Guinea with 319, followed by Sierra Leone with 224 and Liberia with 129, the World Health Organisation said](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/31/article-2711325-2026427800000578-258_634x551.jpg)
Of the 672 deaths, the highest number was in Guinea with 319, followed by Sierra Leone with 224 and Liberia with 129, it added.
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