One technician conducting research on Ebola may have been exposed to the virus at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, officials said Wednesday.
The technician was potentially exposed Monday after a sample containing the virus was mistakenly put in a place where it was transferred to another CDC lab for processing, said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
The technician currently has no symptoms and will be monitored for 21 days, which is the incubation period for the virus. About a dozen others who entered the high-security lab were also assessed for possible exposure, and officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the workers were not exposed.
Officials say the potential exposure was limited to the CDC lab, and there was no risk or exposure to the public.
The event, which was discovered Tuesday and reported to leadership within an hour, remains under investigation by the CDC.
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