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A number of medical evacuations of Ebola cases have been carried out during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, to destinations in Europe and the USA. < would like to talk about survival rate of evacuees >

However, the limited facilities available to carry out evacuations have reportedly discouraged people from volunteering to help. Australia and Canada have refused to deploy their citizens without guaranteed evacuation, although the construction of local, western-run medical facilities may make this unnecessary. Efforts are being made to increase the number of aircraft equipped to perform safe evacuations.

Evacuations to the USA, Germany and France have been carried out by two specially-equipped Gulfstream III aircraft operated by Phoenix Air and leased by the US State Department. These have onboard biocontainment which allows patients to be treated in-flight. Spain and the United Kingdom have also used their own military aircraft to evacuate Ebola cases.