Transferring patients with Ebola from west Africa to “isolation hospitals” in well resourced countries for treatment

The latest predictions regarding the spread of Ebola in west Africa are alarming and leave little time for effective action.1 2 A possible solution would be to transfer Ebola positive patients to suitable “isolation hospitals” in well resourced countries. Our recent experience in Liberia suggests there is too little time to create and staff enough Ebola treatment units (ETUs) to control the epidemic.3 In west Africa, increasing numbers of …