Above is a picture of a health official at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Lagos.
US Centre for Disease Control has recently sent nine of its officials to Lagos, Nigeria. The CDC team is helping with tracking the infection, training health care workers. Speaking to CNN correspondent, David Daigle, associate director for communications at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response says:
"We arrived from different U.S. states, or from the CDC's polio team already in Nigeria, and possess varying skill sets, including infection control, global migration and quarantine, data management, epidemiology and communications.We're here to work with colleagues and partners from Nigeria's Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization to stop the largest Ebola outbreak in history -- the first in a densely populated, urban environment."
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