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Canadian lab worker isolated after possible Ebola exposure
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN
Updated 12:15 AM ET, Wed November 9, 2016
(CNN)An employee at a Canadian government-run infectious disease lab may have been exposed to Ebola, health officials said Tuesday.
The incident occurred Monday at a level 4 containment lab at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, which is part of the Canadian Science Center for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The individual was working with pigs that had been infected with the deadly virus for research purposes. Researchers are trying to understand the immune reaction to the virus in pigs.
In accordance with safety protocols for protection against the highly contagious virus, the employee was donning a protective suit. However, a split in the seam of the protective suit was discovered during the standard decontamination process for leaving the lab, an indication that exposure to the virus may have occurred...
Canadian lab worker isolated after possible Ebola exposure
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN
Updated 12:15 AM ET, Wed November 9, 2016
(CNN)An employee at a Canadian government-run infectious disease lab may have been exposed to Ebola, health officials said Tuesday.
The incident occurred Monday at a level 4 containment lab at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, which is part of the Canadian Science Center for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The individual was working with pigs that had been infected with the deadly virus for research purposes. Researchers are trying to understand the immune reaction to the virus in pigs.
In accordance with safety protocols for protection against the highly contagious virus, the employee was donning a protective suit. However, a split in the seam of the protective suit was discovered during the standard decontamination process for leaving the lab, an indication that exposure to the virus may have occurred...