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 recovered. An unrelated case involved a doctor in New York City, who returned to the United States from Guinea after working with Doctors Without Borders and tested positive for Ebola on 23 October. The person has recovered and was discharged from Bellevue Hospital Center on 11 November. On 24 December 2014, a laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia reported that a technician had been exposed to Ebola. On 29 December 2014, Pauline Cafferkey, a British nurse who had just returned to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, was diagnosed with Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel General Hospital. After initial treatment in Glasgow, she was transferred