The World
Health Organization has withdrawn staff from a laboratory testing for Ebola at
Kailahun in eastern Sierra Leone after one of its medical workers there was
infected during the worst ever outbreak of the disease, a WHO spokesperson
said.
“It’s
a temporary measure to take care of the welfare of our remaining workers,” WHO
spokesperson Christy Feig told Reuters. “After our assessment, they will
return.”
The
WHO has sent nearly
400 people from its own staff and partner organisations to
fight the outbreak in West Africa. It said on Sunday that a foreign health
worker it had deployed in Sierra Leone had been infected.
Reuters
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