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20977

Caption:

Created in November 2014, by CDC Health Scientist, and CMDR in the U. S. Public Health Service, and Lab Team 5 member, Angela J. Sanchez, MS, MT, this image depicted a helicopter that was delivering Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), or translated, Doctors Without Borders, personnel to the MSF Ebola Case Management Center (CMC) in Bo, Sierra Leone, during the 2014 West African Ebola virus outbreak. The Ebola Treatment Unit can be seen in the background. CDC also established an Ebola diagnostic field laboratory on the MSF compound. The lab team would often hear drumming coming from the Ebola convalescent ward. We learned that the drumming was in celebration of when a patient had overcome the disease, and was being released. Our lab generated the test results that determined whether a patient was ready for release, so that made the drumming celebrations even more special for Angela and her team.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ CDC Connects

Creation Date:

2014

Photo Credit:

Angela J. Sanchez, M.S., M.T.

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