U.S. Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain has announced the laboratory technician who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab is showing no symptoms so far, according to a Reuters report.
The technician will be monitored for symptoms of infection for a full three weeks — Ebola's incubation period — after handling Ebola specimens that were supposed to be inactive but may actually have contained live virus.
Despite calling the incident "unacceptable," Mr. Klain assured the public and the CDC campus there is not risk of possible virus exposure, according to the report.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, guaranteed a full report will be released on the investigation of the laboratory mishap in roughly one month.