Ebola: WHO emergency team holds talks on travel curbs

The World Health Organization’s emergency committee is holding talks to discuss the Ebola epidemic.

The meeting in Geneva will examine screening measures at borders and consider whether stricter travel regulations should be put in place.

New rules in the US require travellers from the worst affected countries to arrive at one of five airports.

Meanwhile, first batches of an experimental vaccine against Ebola are due to arrive to Switzerland.

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A passenger arriving from Sierra Leone is screened at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on 16 October 2014.

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