Category: field work

Hard But Fulfilling Work in the Fight Against Ebola

The fruit bat dropped silently from the delivery room ceiling and quickly crawled away as the nurse explained how she mixed the 0.5% chlorine solution used to sterilize the medical instruments. It was a normal day of assessing the infection prevention and control (IPC) procedures of peripheral health units (PHUs) in the rural areas of Read More >

July 21, 2015 by Steven Mischler, MS, Physical Scientist, CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Archive, Ebola, infectious disease

field work, frontline workers, Infection Prevention Control, Kambia, Sierra Leone, West Africa