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THE TELEGRAPH by Ben Farmer March 15, 2015
British commanders were warned last year it was impossible to halt Ebola in Sierra Leone and they were about to lose control of the deadly outbreak in its capital, it has been disclosed.
United Nations and American experts said there was nothing British troops could do to stop the virus rampaging through the country and they were about to “lose Freetown”.
Loss of the capital would have triggered an international evacuation from the country, the commander of British troops revealed, as he explained for the first time the scale of the outbreak they have been fighting....
Brig Stephen McMahon, commander of 104th Logistic Support Brigade, said that while the number of cases had now fallen dramatically, the outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever which has killed 10,000 across West Africa was not yet conquered.
...The warning thankfully proved wrong, he said, because the experts’ mathematical models had failed to take into account the clinics British troops and aid agencies had already built.
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