Friday, November 28, 2014

South African Disease Lab at the Forefront in Fight Against Ebola Menace

Janusz Paweska, south African professor, hesitates for a moment as he elaborates on his work trip to the epicenter of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. "Obviously we had to touch the tubes," he says. "I wonder if I should tell you but I opened them with my hands - I opened 1,400 tubes of blood with my hands." He used gloves, of course, three pairs of them. But when handling a disease that has so far killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, according to the ...

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