{"id":50,"date":"2014-12-29T00:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/ebola-chief-says-cdc-lab-incident-poses-no-risk-to-public\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T00:45:27","slug":"ebola-chief-says-cdc-lab-incident-poses-no-risk-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/ebola-chief-says-cdc-lab-incident-poses-no-risk-to-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola chief says CDC lab incident poses no risk to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-block\">\n<p>The U.S. Ebola response coordinator is calling the mishandling of materials that led to a lab technician\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible exposure to the virus \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unacceptable.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain told CBS television\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Face the Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Sunday that the incident at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab carried no risk to the public because of protocols and procedures in place.<\/p>\n<p>Klain says the CDC technician, who may have come into contact with a small amount of live virus during an experiment, is being monitored daily and shows no signs of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Klain also said the Food and Drug Administration has approved widespread testing to begin in three or four weeks in West Africa of a vaccine to prevent Ebola. He says tens of thousands of people will get the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relevant-link\">\n\t\t<br \/><b>Explore further:<\/b><br \/>\n\t\t  CDC monitoring lab tech after possible Ebola exposure\n\t<\/p>\n<p>                        <!-- additional info --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"post-floor clearfix\">\n<p>                           <!-- rating --><\/p>\n<section class=\"copyright\">\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<p><!--end:post-floor--><\/p>\n<section id=\"slick-social\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Ebola response coordinator is calling the mishandling of materials that led to a lab technician\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible exposure to the virus \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unacceptable.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain told CBS television\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Face the Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Sunday that the incident at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab carried no risk to the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}