At the Ebola treatment centre in eastern Sierra Leone, a recent August day saw more than 60 patients that needed tending to.
Among them were an ambulance full of villagers suspected of Ebola, patients sleeping in a tent as they awaited their diagnoses, and a young man eager to be discharged after two weeks of treatment in isolation.
Dealing quickly with these patients depended on work being done inside two tents at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre — the mobile laboratory, where a rotating team of Canadian scientists have been testing blood samples to determine which patients to admit and which to discharge.
But after a Senegalese epidemiologist deployed by the World Health Organization tested positive for Ebola over the weekend, the United Nations agency has pulled its people from eastern Sierra Leone, including the Canadian team, which is now being evacuated home by private charter…
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