The US Ambassador to the United Nations has travelled to west Africa on a mission to see first hand how the global response is failing to stop the deadly spread of Ebola in the region.
Samantha Power, a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet, left Washington yesterday bound for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Ebola has killed almost half of more than 10,000 people diagnosed with the disease - predominantly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - although the true toll is far higher, according to the World Health Organization.
Ms Power is on a mission to see first hand how the global response is failing to stop the deadly spread of Ebola in west Africa.
She said she hopes to gain a better understanding of what resources are missing so she can push other countries to offer more help.
It comes as as new rules in three American states mandating quarantine for health workers returning from the Ebola-stricken region drew criticism.
Mr Obama has resisted Republican calls for a travel ban on advice from health officials who say such a measure would be counter-productive.
Along with New York and New Jersey, Illinois has now imposed quarantines for anyone arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola in west Africa.
But the first person isolated under the new rules called her treatment a "frenzy of disorganisation."
Kaci Hickox, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, arrived at Newark airport on Friday and was questioned by protective-gear clad officials amid what she said was a misdiagnosis of fever, followed by a transfer to a hospital isolation tent.
Ms Hickox said she feared for what lies ahead for other US health workers trying to help combat the epidemic that has killed thousands in west Africa.
New York and New Jersey imposed 21-day quarantines after a New York City doctor who was diagnosed with the disease on Thursday, days after returning home from working with patients in Guinea.
The doctor's case and the fact he was out and about in the city in the period before his symptoms emerged set off renewed worries in the US about the spread of the disease.
Illinois will now also require a mandatory quarantine of anyone who has had direct contact with Ebola patients in those countries. The quarantines imposed by the three states exceed current US government guidelines, although the Obama administration is discussing similar measures.
Ebola, spread through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person, is not transmitted by people who are not showing symptoms.
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