Liberia's President, Ma Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Makes Desperate Appeal to The World For Help Against Ebola

Liberia's President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

In a "letter to the world" broadcast on BBC World Service, she said the disease "respects no borders", and that every country had to do all it could to help fight it. President Johnson Sirleaf added that a generation of Africans were at risk of "being lost to economic catastrophe". 

The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people across West Africa, including 2,200 in Liberia. International donations have so far fallen well short of the amounts requested by UN agencies and aid organizations.

In the worst-affected countries - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - about 9,000 people have been found to have the Ebola virus, which kills an estimated 70% of those infected.

Family & Friends Remember The Late Thomas Eric Duncan in North Carolina:

Family and friends gather to honor Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who became the first victim of Ebola in the U.S.

 Josephus Weeks, nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan, speaks during a memorial service for Duncan on Saturday, October 18, 2014

The Mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, has her tears wiped by her great-grandson Josephus Weeks III at a memorial service for her son on Saturday in Salisbury, North Carolina

The mother of the late Thomas Eric. Duncan comforted during a memorial service for her son, who died from Ebola in Dallas on October 8