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 help Amgen increase its production, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has asked a number of centers to also increase production. There have been at least two promising treatments for those already infected. The first is Brincidofovir, an experimental antiviral drug, which was given to Duncan, Mukpo, and Spencer. Treatment using a transfusion of plasma from Ebola survivors, a form of “passive immunotherapy,” since it contains antibodies able to fight the virus, has been used with apparent success on a number of patients. Survivor Kent Brantly donated his blood to Rick Sacra, Ashoka Mukpo and nurse Nina