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THE WASHINGTON POST by Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach Dec. 24, 2014
One scientist may have been exposed to the Ebola virus and as many as a dozen others are being assessed for potential exposure at a lab of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.
Experiments with deadly viruses such as Ebola have to be performed in biosafety level or BSL-4 laboratories, for the highest level on containment. (Tim Brakemeier/AFP/Getty Images)
The potential exposure took place Monday when scientists conducting research on the virus at a high-security lab mistakenly put a sample containing the potentially infectious virus in a place where it was transferred for processing to another CDC lab, also in Atlanta on the CDC campus.
The technician has no symptoms of illness and is being monitored for 21 days. Agency spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said others who entered the lab have been contacted and will be assessed for possible exposure by CDC clinicians. She said the number of exposures could be much less than a dozen.
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'Ebola czar' defends CDC procedures in potential case
THE GUARDIAN Dec. 28, 2014
Ron Klain, the Obama administration’s “Ebola czar”, on Sunday defended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), after a technician at one of its facilities in Atlanta was potentially exposed to the deadly disease.
Klain, who is in charge of coordinating the US response to the outbreak of the deadly disease in west Africa, told CBS:“It’s obviously unacceptable to have any mishandling of Ebola materials; [CDC director] Dr [Tom] Frieden will present a full review and report within four weeks. But I also think it’s important to keep this in context.
“First of all, thanks to the other protocols and procedures in place, there was no risk to the public, to the CDC staff generally. Only one technician was exposed and so far she’s showing no signs of having the disease. She’ll be monitored every day.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/28/ebola-czar-defends-cdc-procedures-potential-exposure