Running an Ebola Clinic in Sierra Leone Is All About Containment — And Chlorine

December 19, 2014

(Wired) – Treating patients with the deadly Ebola virus takes doctors, drugs, and a whole lot of chlorine. The Ebola treatment units being deployed across Sierra Leone are built by teams of logisticians—“logs” in disaster aid parlance—who can drop into a bare field and construct a mini city in a matter of weeks. But these cities are full of some of the world’s sickest, most contagious patients. Everything in the centers serves two goals: helping patients get better, and keeping them from infecting their caretakers.