(task) MSF infected workers - NOT infected at work

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Kathy,

Thank you for this piece. The fomite issues when living in ebola-infected communities can be overwhelming to control. Living in cholera-infected communities was challenging, but ebola is one to two orders of magnitude more complicated when there are exponentially increasing cases in an area.

Mike

On Sep 10, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com> wrote:

> Mike,
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> Important to know . . .
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> "Doctors Without Borders, which has been involved in Ebola outbreaks for years, has never recorded a single infection among its international staff during an outbreak. So far in West Africa, where it is currently running most of the treatment clinics, six national staff have been infected, but an investigation suggested none of them was infected at work."
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/ebola-african-union_n_5789828.html?ir=WorldPost
>
> Kathy