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==Ebola==

==Ebola==

Metabiota Inc. had been contracted by the Pentagon to perform work for DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in West Africa and was awarded $3.1 million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone – one of the countries at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.  Metabiota has also been embroiled in controversy for “bungling” America’s response to Ebola.

Metabiota Inc. had been contracted by the Pentagon to perform work for DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in West Africa and was awarded $3.1 million (2012-2015) for work in [[Sierra Leone]]<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra112c0024</ref> – one of the countries at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.  Metabiota has also been embroiled in controversy for “bungling” America’s response to Ebola.

{{quotebox-float|“An American company that bills itself as a pioneer in tracking emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa — with employees feuding with fellow responders, contributing to misdiagnosed Ebola cases and repeatedly misreading the trajectory of the virus,” an [[Associated Press]] (AP) investigation into the company found.  The company reportedly made the “already chaotic situation worse,” prompting [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) officials to criticize the company: "Emails obtained by AP and interviews with aid workers on the ground show that some of the company’s actions made an already chaotic situation worse."<ref>https://apnews.com/article/46328e561bfb44b99b2e6937835be957</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|“An American company that bills itself as a pioneer in tracking emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa — with employees feuding with fellow responders, contributing to misdiagnosed Ebola cases and repeatedly misreading the trajectory of the virus,” an [[Associated Press]] (AP) investigation into the company found.  The company reportedly made the “already chaotic situation worse,” prompting [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) officials to criticize the company: "Emails obtained by AP and interviews with aid workers on the ground show that some of the company’s actions made an already chaotic situation worse."<ref>https://apnews.com/article/46328e561bfb44b99b2e6937835be957</ref>}}

A July 17, 2014 report drafted by the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, accused Metabiota Inc. of failing to abide by an existing agreement on how to report test results and for bypassing the Sierra Leonean scientists working there. The report also raised the possibility that Metabiota was culturing blood cells at the lab, something the report said was dangerous, as well as misdiagnosing healthy patients.<ref>https://archive.fo/o/fVtcf/https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2752219-20140717-Report-on-Ebola-Response-by-Viral.html</ref>  An email from Dr. Eric Bertherat of the WHO to colleagues about misdiagnoses and “total confusion” at the [[Sierra Leone]] government lab Metabiota shared with [[Tulane University]] in the city of Kenema. He said there was “no tracking of the samples” and “absolutely no control on what is being done.”  “This is a situation that WHO can no longer endorse,” he wrote.  All of those allegations were denied by Metabiota.

A July 17, 2014 report drafted by the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, accused Metabiota Inc. of failing to abide by an existing agreement on how to report test results and for bypassing the Sierra Leonean scientists working there. The report also raised the possibility that Metabiota was culturing blood cells at the lab, something the report said was dangerous, as well as misdiagnosing healthy patients.<ref>https://archive.fo/o/fVtcf/https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2752219-20140717-Report-on-Ebola-Response-by-Viral.html</ref>  An email from Dr. Eric Bertherat of the WHO to colleagues about misdiagnoses and “total confusion” at the Sierra Leone government lab Metabiota shared with [[Tulane University]] in the city of Kenema. He said there was “no tracking of the samples” and “absolutely no control on what is being done.”  “This is a situation that WHO can no longer endorse,” he wrote.  All of those allegations were denied by Metabiota.

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