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Corporate Authors:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Description:
High risk

• Direct contact with blood or body fluids from a person showing symptoms of Ebola

while not wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Living with and caring for a person showing symptoms of Ebola.

• Direct contact with a dead body while in a country with a large Ebola outbreak or

a small outbreak that may be hard to control without wearing PPE.

• Direct contact with blood or body fluids from a person showing symptoms of Ebola through splashes to eyes, nose, or mouth, through a break in the skin, or through

a needle stick.

• Processing blood or body fluids from a person showing symptoms of Ebola without wearing PPE or undertaking standard biosafety precautions.

Some risk

• Close contact (within 3 feet) for a long time with a person showing symptoms of Ebola while not wearing PPE.

• Direct contact while in a country with a large Ebola outbreak or a small outbreak

that may be hard to control with a person showing symptoms of Ebola while wearing

appropriate PPE.

Low risk

• Having been in a country with a large Ebola outbreak or a small outbreak that may

be hard to control within the past 21 days with no known exposures.

• Brief direct contact, such as shaking hands, with a person who has Ebola while not

wearing PPE.

• Being in the same room for a short amount of time with a person showing

symptoms of Ebola.

• Direct contact with a person showing symptoms of Ebola in a country without

a large Ebola outbreak or a small outbreak that may be hard to control while

wearing appropriate PPE.

• Having traveled on an airplane with a person showing symptoms of Ebola.

No risk

• Contact with a person with Ebola before their symptoms began.

• Having left a country with a large Ebola outbreak or small outbreak that may

be hard to control more than 21 days ago.

• Having been in a country without a large Ebola outbreak or small outbreak

that may be hard to control.

• Contact with a healthy person who had contact with

someone showing symptoms of Ebola.

cdc.gov/ebola

December 16, 2014 CS252940


Subjects:
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Air Travel Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Risk Assessment Travel
Document Type:
Poster
Genre:
Infographic
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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