Worker examined after 'exposure'

BYLINE: Brenden Sager, STAFF

An employee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate

Research Center was examined Wednesday for an unspecified

exposure. "Basically an employee is undergoing evaluation

following a potentially harmful exposure," said Sylvia Wrobel,

assistant vice president of health sciences communications in

the department of public affairs.Wrobel declined comment on

what the exposure was, who it affected, how it might have been

transmitted or when the employee was exposed.She said the

employee was undergoing an examination as a "standard

safety procedure, following any potential exposure."In

December 1997, Elizabeth R. Griffin, a 22-year-old Yerkes

research assistant, died from a viral infection six weeks after

fluid from a monkey spattered her eye. Her death prompted

officials to take more precautions, particularly wearing

protective goggles when handling animals.