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 epidemic in Sierra Leone sent one of their hospital ships, the Royal Navy's "Argus", to help Sierra Leone. By late October Sierra Leone was experiencing more than twenty deaths a day from Ebola. In October 2014, officials reported that very few pregnant women were surviving Ebola disease. In previous outbreaks pregnant women were noted to have a higher rate of death with Ebola. Officials struggled to maintain order in one town after a medical team trying to take a blood sample from a corpse were blocked by an angry machete-wielding mob. They allegedly believed the person had died from high-blood pressure and did not