Ebola News: United Nations to deploy Medical detectives as next phase in the battle against Ebola Medical detective work will be the next big phase in the fight against Ebola when the United Nations deploys hundreds of health workers to identify chains of infection as the virus passes from person to person, top U.N. health workers said.The health teams will travel to each district and region of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries at the centre of the epidemic, to trace who each infected person has potentially contacted.The effort will run in parallel with measures to minimize the spread of infection, such as treating all Ebola patients in specialised centres and burying all victims safely.But Phase Two of the plan is to contain the virus by understanding its lines of transmission, said World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:46:22 +0000