Russia's health and safety watchdog has said it ready to send additional experts to West Africa to help contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 3,400 people, if its medical personnels' safety can be guaranteed.
Watchdog head Anna Popova said Tuesday that her agency, Rospotrebnadzor, "would be willing to consider sending specialists and laboratories to West Africa in line with the UN's coordinating role [in combating the virus] and on the condition that the safety of personnel could be guaranteed," according to a statement on the agency website.
The statement, which detailed a meeting between Popova and the UN's system coordinator for Ebola, David Nabarro, did not specify which guarantees Russia may be seeking after a number of health workers have contracted the virus despite extensive safety precautions.
In the first known case of infection with the virus outside of Africa, a nurse's assistant in Spain was this week diagnosed with Ebola after caring for two Spanish missionaries in Madrid, where they were flown for treatment after contacting the virus in West Africa.
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INC News, 08/10/2014
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