FREDERICTON – Federal and provincial health officials are conducting an exercise Friday in Fredericton to test New Brunswick’s ability to respond to an outbreak of Ebola.
Dr. Gregory Taylor, Canada’s chief public health officer, says there’s little chance of the virus arriving in the province from West Africa, but health officials need to prepare just in case.
About 45 health officials are testing components of the province’s public health response, including communication, biosafety and laboratory response.
New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Eilish Cleary, recently returned from Nigeria and Sierra Leone, where she helped deal with the Ebola outbreak.
She says New Brunswick and Canada are well prepared if a case of the virus was to arrive here.
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