Ebola virus disease confirmed in a traveler to Nigeria, two U.S. healthcare workers in Liberia

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  July 28, 2014, 16:30 ET (4:30 PM ET)
  
  CDCHAN-00363
  
  Nigerian health authorities have confirmed a diagnosis of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a patient who died on Friday in a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, after traveling from Liberia on July 20, 2014. The report marks the first Ebola case in Nigeria linked to the current outbreak in the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Health authorities also reported this weekend that two U.S. citizens working in a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, have confirmed Ebola virus infection. These recent cases, together with the continued increase in the number of Ebola cases in West Africa, underscore the potential for travel-associated spread of the disease and the risks of EVD to healthcare workers. While the possibility of infected persons entering the U.S. remains low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises that healthcare providers in the U.S. should consider EVD in the differential diagnosis of febrile illness, with compatible symptoms, in any person with recent (within 21 days) travel history in the affected countries and consider isolation of those patients meeting these criteria, pending diagnostic testing.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ebolavirus Health Personnel Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology Travel
• Source:
  HAN ; 363
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  Liberia ; Nigeria
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  363
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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