1.   The isolation ward was already crowded with cases of other illnesses when the first five polio victims arrived in May.

2.   Already-malnourished children are vulnerable to infection, yet the hospital cannot maintain sterile isolation wards.

3.   Almost none of the health-care workers in Uganda wore goggles at all times inside the isolation wards.

4.   Even isolation wards in hos- pitals merely have negative air pres- sure, with a higher pressure in the corridor than in the room.

5.   His small house was located inside the hospital compound, and the doctor made it to the Ebola isolation ward within five minutes.

6.   The four fever patients at the hospital are confined to a spartan, ill-equipped isolation ward in a squat concrete building behind barred windows and barbed wire.

7.   The head of operations is working on transforming two entire buildings into isolation wards for smallpox victims.

8.   The isolation ward is where some patients fighting Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, caused by a tick-borne virus, are being held.

9.   With the help of various international organizations, however, both isolation wards were well supplied, Dr. Daniel Bausch told me last week.

10.   Other hospitals also had back-up isolation wards, but their capacity might vary, she said.