PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT – Sierra Leone

2014.541.008 - Bo Lab PPE Side.JPG
2014.541.008 - Bo Lab PPE Front.JPG
2014.541.008 - Bo Lab PPE Back.JPG

Date

November 2014 – September 2015

Description

Examples of the personal protective equipment (PPE) – cloth hood, clear face shield, and powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) – used by laboratorians working with Ebola specimens at a hot lab located within the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola Case Management Center in the Bo District, Sierra Leone during the 2014 – 2016 Ebola response.

Source

United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Citation

“PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT – Sierra Leone,” The Global Health Chronicles, accessed December 26, 2024, https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/8304.