Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone of the outbreak in Sierra Leone in late May 2014, several people have been evacuated. An increasing lack of hospital beds, medical equipment, and health care personnel made treatment difficult.On 24 August William Pooley, a British nurse, was evacuated from Sierra Leone. He was released on September 3, 2014. In October 2014 he announced he would return to Sierra Leone. On 21 September 2014 Spain evacuated a Catholic priest who had contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone with Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios. He died on the 25th September in Madrid. On 6 October 2014 a nurse
Ebola virus disease to be the Ebola species responsible for the outbreak. In 2003 an outbreak in the Republic of the Congo infected 143 and killed 128, a 90% death rate, the highest of a genus "Ebolavirus" outbreak to date. In 2004 a Russian scientist died from Ebola after sticking herself with an infected needle. Between April and August 2007, a fever epidemic in a four-village region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was confirmed in September to have been cases of Ebola. Many people who attended the recent funeral of a local village chief died. The 2007 outbreak eventually infected 264