Ebola control protocols reviewed

Canada’s chief public health officer is meeting with provincial and territorial officials to review the rules for health care workers handling possible Ebola patients.

The World Health Organization is calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times,” and Doctor Gregory Taylor says modifications might be required in light of two recent cases of Ebola transmission to health care workers in Dallas and in Spain.

Test results late Monday confirmed an Ottawa patient who was isolated with Ebola-like symptoms does not have the disease, but test results on a patient in Belleville aren’t expected until later today.

In Dallas, a nurse infected by a Liberian man who died last week has been given the plasma of an American doctor who was infected but recovered, with the idea that antibodies might help the nurse recover.