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 cases in the United States for use in the context of this outbreak, and are currently or will soon undergo clinical trials. In late August 2014, both Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol became the first people to be given the experimental drug ZMapp. They both recovered, but there was no confirmation or proof that the drug was a factor. A Spanish priest with Ebola had taken ZMapp but died afterward. Up until that time, ZMapp had only been tested on primates and looked promising, causing no serious side effects and protecting the animals from infection. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $150,000 to