Via The Winnipeg Free Press, a report from The Canadian Press: Canadian doctors to combat Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Excerpt:
The Public Health Agency of Canada says a team of specialists will soon be en route to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help combat a deadly Ebola outbreak.
The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg will deploy one of its mobile units to the country which has been reeling from the outbreak since May.
Chief of special pathogens Dr. Gary Kobinger says a team of three scientists will be on the ground to help diagnose and treat Ebola cases as they arise.
It's the latest of several international relief missions for the NML, which has sent one of its mobile units out into the field about once a year for the past decade.
