A Derry doctor is to fly out to West Africa to help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak.
Virologist Christopher Logue, who has worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will fly out to Guinea this weekend to lead tests at a laboratory to check if patients presenting with symptoms have contracted the virus.
More than 1,000 people have died in West Africa since the outbreak was first reported in February this year
Dr Logue, from Park near Claudy, is a senior virologist in the Novel and Dangerous Pathogens training group at Public Health England (PHE), Porton Down, in Salisbury.
The laboratory is a World Health Organisation (WHO) reference centre for haemorrhagic fevers.
He will spend a month as part of a team that will use rapid diagnosis tests on patients, which can identify the presence of the Ebola virus in blood samples within a few hours.
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