British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he would hold a top-level government meeting to discuss the outbreak of the highly-infectious Ebola virus across West Africa which he warned posed a threat to Britain.
"It is a threat. It is something we need to respond to," Hammond told BBC TV.
Ebola
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