The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hire a laboratory safety supervisor after an Ebola virus sample was mishandled last week, the third reported safety lapse with potentially dangerous pathogens at the agency’s labs in the past year.
The new position, posted nationally in November before the Ebola incident, is “under recruitment,” Barbara Reynolds, a CDC spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. The safety chief will be responsible for identifying problems, creating plans to solve them and holding CDC labs “accountable for follow-up,” she said.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hire a laboratory safety supervisor after an Ebola virus sample was mishandled last week, the third reported safety lapse with potentially dangerous pathogens at the agency’s labs in the past year.
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