A search to fill the new position is underway, being led by the director of the CDC’s Office of Infectious Diseases, according to Reuters. The person who lands the job will find problems and make plans to solve them as well as hold other CDC programs accountable.
The chief of laboratory safety position is being temporarily filled by Leslie Dauphin, PhD, a microbiologist with the CDC, according to Reuters.
The creation of a new post was a recommendation stemming from an internal investigation into the CDC’s lab mishaps in 2014, including mishandling anthrax and bird flu samples over the summer. More recently, a lab tech was accidently exposed to live Ebola virus in a CDC lab.
More articles on the CDC:
CDC lab tech exposed to Ebola showing no signs of disease
Possible Ebola exposure in CDC lab
Ebola is still spreading, CDC says
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