[h=1]Guinea and Sierra Leone tried to cover up Ebola crisis, says Medecins Sans Frontieres[/h] [h=2]Report by MSF also accuses US biotech company of failing to spot cases in Sierra Leone[/h] By
Colin Freeman
6:30AM GMT 23 Mar 2015
M?decins Sans Fronti?res has accused the governments of
Guinea and
Sierra Leone and a leading US biotech firm of obstructing its early efforts to bring the
Ebola outbreak under control.
...
The report, compiled as a "lessons learned" exercise, also questions the conduct of a US medical firm, Metabiota, that was monitoring suspected Ebola cases on behalf of the Sierra Leonean health ministry.
Not only did Metabiota apparently fail to detect any cases of the virus in Sierra Leone during the early months of the outbreak, it later refused to co-operate with MSF in providing details of "contact lists" of potentially infected people, forcing the agency to work "in the dark."
...
The report said that as early as March of last year, health officials in Guinea were seeing Ebola-infected people coming in from over the porous border with Sierra Leone, but that Metabiota and Tulane continued to report no cases at all in Sierra Leone. "Their ongoing surveillance activities seem to have missed the cases of Ebola that had emerged in the country," MSF said...
