Sierra Leone - Canada pulling 3 member lab team back from Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadi...-staff-pulled-from-sierra-leone-lab-1.2746945


Canadians among Ebola virus staff pulled from Sierra Leone lab
Why so many health care workers are being infected
CBC News Posted: Aug 26, 2014 8:56 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 5:32 PM ET


The United Nations health agency said it?s pulled staff from a laboratory testing for the Ebola virus in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, after a Senegalese epidemiologist was infected.

"It's a temporary measure to take care of the welfare of our remaining workers," WHO spokesperson Christy Feig told Reuters, without specifying how long the measure would last. "After our assessment, they will return."

Three Canadians from the national virology lab in Winnipeg were among the six workers who have withdrawn to Freetown, Feig told CBC News.

Feig says the two teams of three workers will decide when or whether to return after WHO investigates whether it was a routine infection, or something to do with the lab's processes or equipment.

"The Canadians will make their own call but it will be based on this group up there doing an investigation now," said Feig...

 

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Sierra Leone - Canada pulling 3 member lab team back from Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

Canada pulling 3 member lab team back from Sierra Leone over Ebola fears


BY HELEN BRANSWELL, THE CANADIAN PRESS AUGUST 27, 2014 4:40 AM



TORONTO - Canada is in the process of evacuating its three-member mobile laboratory team from Sierra Leone over concerns for the safety of the scientists.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said late Tuesday that the team is being recalled to Canada after people at the hotel complex where they were staying were diagnosed with Ebola.

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Re: Sierra Leone - Canada pulling 3 member lab team back from Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

Ebola outbreak: Canadian scientists back home after being pulled from Sierra Leone

By Helen Branswell, The Canadian PressPosted: Aug 29, 2014 8:03 PM ET|Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 8:47 PM ET
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The three left earlier Friday on a chartered plane to make the trip home. A quarantine officer assessed them when their plane landed in an undisclosed Canadian location.

They were deemed healthy and allowed to travel to private residences where they will enter a period of isolation.

The Public Health Agency has not released the names of the team and won't say where they live, for privacy reasons. They are believed to be employees of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
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The Canadians will isolate themselves ? even from their families ? as they wait out a 21-day incubation period. Their health will be monitored during that time, the agency said.

If they develop symptoms during that period they will be transported to hospital for assessment.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola...fter-being-pulled-from-sierra-leone-1.2751151