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New Canaan Health Director: Town’s First Responders to Undergo Additional Training following Concerns about Ebola

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[Editor’s Note: The following statement regarding community preparedness on Ebola was issued by Dr. David Reed, director of health in the New Canaan Department of Health. As we reported in a recent installment of “Did You Hear …” the town’s emergency officials have been working toward a municipal protocol regarding the disease.]

Recently, concern has mounted about the spread of Ebola in the United States. As the Director of Health New Canaan, I would like to share with you the regional response plans. Since 2007, the New Canaan Department of Health has been part of the Region 1 (ESF-8 Fairfield County) Public Health Emergency Response Team (PHERT). Over the past few years, the New Canaan PHERT has developed protocols to deal with a potential deadly pandemic event in our town, which was modeled on a new flu virus strain such as devastated the country in 1918.