Las Vegas Sun

April 28, 2024

A nurse walks past an ambulance Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, at a clinic shared by U.S. epidemic research firm Metabiota Inc. and international researchers at the government hospital in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. The San Francisco-based startup Metabiota had been charged with reinforcing Sierra Leone's response to Ebola, but emails obtained by the AP alleged that the company was undermining the U.N. agency's authority by drawing up response plans without WHO's knowledge.

Sunday Alamba / AP

A nurse walks past an ambulance Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, at a clinic shared by U.S. epidemic research firm Metabiota Inc. and international researchers at the government hospital in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. The San Francisco-based startup Metabiota had been charged with reinforcing Sierra Leone's response to Ebola, but emails obtained by the AP alleged that the company was undermining the U.N. agency's authority by drawing up response plans without WHO's knowledge.