Sierra Leone (CNN) -- It's Monday, mid-morning as we drive east down rain-slicked roads. There are no cars, no trucks, and no people. Sierra Leone's government demanded a shutdown and its citizens are listening. The West African nation crippled by Ebola is responding to the outbreak through a day of prayer and reflection. But that gives little comfort to us. Ebola is a disease that spreads fear faster than it infects. And the emptiness makes us uneasy. We're headed to Doctors Without Borders or MSF's treatment facility in Kailahun, a border community in the middle of the Kissi triangle, linking the country with Liberia and Guinea. Simply put, it's the epicenter of this unprecedented epidemic.
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An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected more than 1,700 people
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CNN's Brent Swails and David McKenzie traveled to an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone
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MSF workers there say they need more experts in the community tracing the disease
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Their center is based in a district with a population of 500,000, and they have just 80 beds
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