What Is Contact Tracing? [2014]

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• Alternative Title:
  What Is Contact Tracing? [English]
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Contact tracing can stop the Ebola outbreak in its tracks.
  
  Contact tracing is finding everyone who comes in direct contact with a sick Ebola patient. Contacts are watched for signs of illness for 21 days from the last day they came in contact with the Ebola patient. If the contact develops a fever or other Ebola symptoms, they are immediately isolated, tested, provided care, and the cycle starts again—all of the new patient’s contacts are found and watched for 21 days. Even one missed contact can keep the outbreak going.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Contact Tracing Disease Outbreaks Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
• Keywords:
  Ebola Ebola Virus Ebola Virus Disease Orthoebolavirus
• Series:
  Contact Tracing
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Place as Subject:
  Africa, Western ; North America
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
• Location:
  Africa ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:00b56c33a53f704088d811c5fda501e54c07a1e904be03f780e9bf5f31a4d0359cdcccde3fd42b534fa7442438bb60c153dda99acb1c3eb8ae4028bfa6620cc1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24832/cdc_24832_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 247.93 KB ]