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
2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak 1976, 1977 and 2014) occurring in former province of Équateur, of which the current Équateur province forms part. The most recent prior outbreak occurred in the northern Congo in 2017, with eight confirmed or probable cases including four deaths. The DRC regulatory authorities approved use of the experimental rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, but logistical issues delayed implementation until the outbreak was already under control. DRC lags behind the rest of Africa in health expenditures, at Intl$ 32 per head in 2014. Shortly before the first cases of the 2018 Ebola outbreak, the country experienced a widespread cholera epidemic (June 2017 – spring