President of the United States, Barack Obama, will hold a meeting next week with top CDC medical experts in Atlanta to discuss the current Ebola outbreak and the US response to the epidemic in West Africa.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that Obama will travel to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta on the coming Tuesday to receive a briefing on the spread of the deadly viral disease in West Africa.

Earnest added that the president would also thank scientists, doctors and healthcare workers who were providing healthcare facilities to the people affected by the disease.

Earlier, the US government had committed more than $100 million to help combat the Ebola outbreak, which has so far claimed over 2,400 lives in West Africa.

The president is also scheduled to receive an update from CDC officials on the respiratory illness that has infected several children across the Midwest in the US.

Four Americans have been or are being treated for the Ebola. All these Americans contracted the disease while helping infected people in West Africa and were given treatment in the US after evacuation from West Africa.

The recent Ebola outbreak has infected 4,269 people and killed 2,400 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the WHO.

The outbreak started in March in Guinea and has spread to Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The WHO said that Liberia and Sierra Leone account for more than 60 percent of the deaths.