mardi 5 août 2014

The Obscure Airline That Evacuated the American Ebola Patients

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At a small, single runway airport in Cartersville, Georgia, a tiny airline got an urgent — and unprecedented — call last week: to fly the only two Americans known to have contracted the Ebola virus from West Africa to the U.S. for treatment. The first flight took off from Liberia on Friday, carrying Kent Brantley, a doctor from Texas. On Tuesday, Nancy Writebol, the second patient, arrived at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.


Phoenix Air Group may not be a household name. But the little-known airline specializes in "weird" government assignments, including serving as an air ambulance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Read more...


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