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UNITID LABORATORY STAFF VISITS NATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY LAB IN
CANADA WINNIPEG 22ND -26TH NOV 2014.
Mr Ernest Lutomia, visited the Public agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory
(NML) on 22nd -26th September 2014.NML is housed in the Canadian Science centre for human
and animal health at 1015 Arlington Street in Winnipeg Mannitoba, Canada.
The long term purpose of this Visit was to receive training inorder to establish Ebola diagnostic
Laboratory at UNITID, Kenya, Nairobi.
The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML), Canada is responsible for the identification,
control and prevention of infectious diseases.
The NML is located at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg,
the first facility in the world to have high containment laboratories for human and animal health
in one building. It is recognized as a leader in an elite group of centres around the world,
equipped with laboratories ranging from biosafety level 2 to level 4 designed to accommodate
the most basic to the most deadly infectious organisms.
The NML is Canada's main infectious disease public health laboratory with responsibility for
reference microbiology and quality assurance, laboratory surveillance for infectious diseases,
emergency outbreak preparedness and response, training, and research and development.