Standing out for the high
numbers of patients infected while at the hospital: Mt. Sinai and Metropolitan Hospitals in Manhattan, SUNY Downstate and Brookdale in Brooklyn, and Bronx - Lebanon and Montefiore - Einstein in the Bronx.
The consortium's work was crucial for the development
of ZMapp, the experimental antibody cocktail used to treat a very small
number of Ebola
patients, including two American aid workers
infected while in Africa.
A
number of charities on our list are working on the ground in West Africa including the Canadian Red Cross (education, clinical case management, contact tracing, burials, support), Doctors Without Borders (medical care), Plan Canada (prevention information, support for the
infected and affected, containing the spread
of the disease), Samaritan's Purse (
patient care) and World Vision (medical supplies / equipment, children's education and outbreak training), with Red Cross and Samaritan's Purse earning top marks with «A +» grades respectively.