A six-month mission that sent Canadian Armed Forces medical personnel to Sierra Leone to help with the Ebola crisis has ended. Dubbed Operation Sirona, the 79-person Canadian team worked at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment unit which was run by the British government.They provided medical care to 90 local and international healthcare workers.
Britain has informed Canada that it no longer needs help at the unit because of the decline in cases, according to a statement from Canada’s Department of National Defence.
Cases have indeed dropped dramatically since last fall, but there is still low-level transmission in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Liberia today announced one death from Ebola, the first since March.
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