A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa said she plans to end her voluntary US quarantine and even stepped outside her home briefly.

Liberia may be seeing a decline in the spread of ebola, with falls in the number of burials and new admissions as well as a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

A US nurse who is in isolation after treating Ebola patients in west Africa says she is prepared to go to court if the state tries to quarantine her.

A US nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released, officials said.