WHO Shuts Sierra Leone Lab After Worker Infected with Ebola

A British man infected with the Ebola virus is loaded into a Royal Air Force (RAF) ambulance after being flown home on a C17 plane from Sierra Leone, at Northolt air base outside London, August 24, 2014.  REUTERS/Andrew Winning

af.reuters.com - By Umaru Fofana and Media Coulibaly - August 26, 2014

FREETOWN/KINSHASA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola, a move that may hamper efforts to boost the global response to the worst ever outbreak of the disease.

. . . The WHO said it had withdrawn staff from the laboratory testing for Ebola at Kailahun -- one of only two in Sierra Leone -- after a Senegalese epidemiologist was infected with Ebola. . .

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

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WHO pulls Ebola team, probes site of staffer's infection
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/08/who-pulls-ebola-team-probes-site-staffers-infection

WHO - 25 August 2014 press briefing in Freetown, Sierra Leone on the Ebola response (9 page .PDF file)
[This transcription is not verbatim.]
http://who.int/mediacentre/multimedia/2014/press-conference-sierra-leone-25-aug-2014.pdf?ua=1

Press briefings - Ebola outbreak in west Africa
http://who.int/mediacentre/multimedia/ebola_briefing/en/