Public Health England says yet another healthcare worker who may have had contact with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital in London after returning […]
Good news today, that the two military healthcare team members recently repatriated to London have been released from their 21 day quarantine in good health. This is excellent news, and […]
There are now two British healthcare team members repatriated from Sierra Leone having suffered sharps or needlestick incidents while caring for patients in the Ebola outbreak there. Above all, we […]
Improving Burial Practices and Cemetery Management During an Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Sierra Leone, 2014 Carrie F. Nielsen, PhD, Sarah Kidd, MD, Ansumana R.M. Sillah, PhD, MD, et al. […]
The scramble to ship effective waste sterilisation or incineration facilities to those West African countries presently affected by Ebola virus infection rolls on. Newest kid on the block is the […]
A mixed bag of information and links provided by the US National Waste & Recycling Association, including a really good graphic outlining the waste collection and disposal process. As good […]
An Ebola waste task force has been created by WasteAid International and Disaster Waste Recovery to help meet West Africa’s waste disposal needs in the midst of the Ebola crisis. […]
The management of waste from known or suspected cases of Ebola virus infection has taken something of a back seat, with guidance from the US , and Ireland appearing somewhat […]
RedR are a group providing practical waste management training to NHS workers on their way to deal with the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. WasteAid is part of an Ebola […]
Waste from Ebola-exposed patient incinerated at Fort Detrick, USA. “An official with the union that represents workers at Maryland’s Fort Detrick said he’s troubled by the lack of details provided […]
An excellent Guidance Note on the packaging and transport of waste from suspect and confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus is published by The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Ireland’s specialist agency […]
Scientific American has an important and thoughtful piece concerning the problem of waste management in Ebola-affected regions. Reminding us that an Ebola patient produces up to 40 times more waste […]
Dr Suresh D Pillai doesn’t want to sensationalize the use of electron beam technology by solely talking about using it to sanitize Ebola virus contaminated equipment and wastewater. However, he […]
Hospitals worldwide are be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community […]
In a generous act of compassion Hampshire based technology developer, PyroPure, is to donate one of its on-site medical waste pyrolysis systems to West Africa in a bid to help […]
PyroPure Ltd is calling for the UK to treat the development of on site medical waste disposal technology as a priority following the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa, which has […]