British doctors have been told to keep an eye out for anyone displaying the symptoms of Ebola as authorities in Africa fail to contain an outbreak.
A second airline stopped its flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone on Tuesday night, hours after a highly regarded doctor died of the virus.
An American GP who has been treating Ebola patients in Liberia is also said to be in a grave condition and "terrified" he will not survive.
Two other US health workers are currently being treated for Ebola in hospital in Liberia.
It comes after a 40-year-old American man of Liberian descent died in Nigeria on Friday, that country's first case.
The Ebola outbreak is the largest in history with more than 670 deaths blamed on the disease in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, as well as Nigeria, since February.
Medical staff prepare to bring food to patients in an isolation area Dr Brian McCloskey, director of global health at Public Health England (PHE), said there are a number of British staff working on the ground in West Africa.
He said that while PHE believed the risk to British travellers and workers was low, doctors needed to be vigilant.
Dr McCloskey said: "The continuing increase in cases, especially in Sierra Leone, and the importation of a single case from Liberia to Nigeria is a cause for concern as it indicates the outbreak is not yet under control.
"We have alerted UK medical practitioners about the situation in West Africa and requested they remain vigilant for unexplained illness in those who have visited the affected area.
Kent Brantly, a US GP who has fallen sick in Liberia, says he is terrified "People who have returned from affected areas who have a sudden onset of symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat and general malaise within three weeks of their return should immediately seek medical assistance."
Sierra Leone medic Dr Sheik Umar Khan was praised as a national hero for treating dozens of people with the disease in Sierra Leone, but was last night confirmed to have died.
He had been quarantined after catching the virus while helping others.
The airline ASKY, on which dead finance ministry official Patrick Sawyer travelled to Nigeria from Liberia, via Ghana and Togo, said it was temporarily halting flights to the Liberian capital Monrovia and Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Passengers at the airline's hub in Lome, Togo will also be screened by medical teams, it said. Arik Air had already cancelled flights in the area.
Patrick Sawyer's family are devastated by his death Canada's CBC said the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level Two travel alert, warning travellers to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to avoid contact with body fluids of people who might be affected.
Two missionary groups based in North Carolina ordered the evacuation of their non-essential personnel from Liberia last night as the situation worsened.
Texas-born doctor Kent Brantly, 33, who remains fighting for his life in Monrovia, told a friend in an email: "I'm praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease."
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