What is being done?Avoid contact with Ebola patients and their bodily fluids, advises the WHO. Do not touch anything - such as shared towels - which could have become contaminated in a public place.
Carers should wear gloves and protective equipment, such as masks, and wash their hands regularly.
The WHO also warns against consuming raw bushmeat and any contact with infected bats or monkeys and apes. Fruit bats in particular are considered a delicacy in the area of Guinea where the outbreak started.
Liberia's health minister has advised people to stop having sex, in addition to existing advice not to shake hands or kiss.
A BBC reporter in the Liberian capital Monrovia says many supermarket workers are wearing gloves as a precaution.
Senegal has closed its land border with Guinea. The Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour cancelled his concert last week in Conakry, saying it was not a good idea to bring hundreds or thousands of people together in an enclosed area.
Singer Youssou N'Dour cancelled his concert in Conakry over fears that it could become a site for transmitting the virus
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