By Greg Milam, US Correspondent
A British "disease detective", who has become an information lifeline for residents of Dallas during the city's ebola crisis, has told Sky News she finds it "surreal" to be caught up in the outbreak.
Dr Seema Yasmin is a public health professor but also works as a reporter for the city's Dallas Morning News newspaper.
Her question and answer sessions with readers on Twitter have become hugely popular in the last week as residents seek information on the outbreak.
Dr Yasmin told Sky News: "People have a lot of questions and some anxiety but a lot of that can be alleviated by answering the questions."
Dallas has seen the first diagnosis of ebola in the US, the country's first known transmission of the virus and its first fatality. Thomas Eric Duncan died last week and one of the nurses who treated him, Nina Pham, remains in isolation.
"People are calling Dallas ground zero for ebola but perspective is really important and ground zero for ebola is West Africa," Dr Yasmin said.
"That's where thousands of people have died, many more thousands have become infected and as long as the epidemic continues to rage in west Africa we will see imported cases in other parts of the world."
Born in Hackney, Dr Yasmin studied medicine at Cambridge before becoming a so-called disease detective in the epidemic intelligence service of the US Centers for Disease Control.
That work, she has said, took her to Africa, maximum security prisons and Native American reservations.
She joined the Dallas Morning News in the summer and is also a professor in practice at the University of Texas in the city.
"I worked in public health at the CDC because I was so passionate about stopping epidemics and keeping people safe.
"At that time my job was to stop outbreaks and now as a journalist at the Dallas Morning News my job is much more to provide information to people about what's happening behind the scenes."
US President Barack Obama is holding a conference later with major world leaders to discuss the ebola outbreak, which he says the world is not doing enough about.
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World health experts have warned that the number of people being infected will reach 10,000 a week within two months.
More than 4,400 are now known to have died of the virus across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, with more than 8,000 infected.
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