Ebola Virus Disease in Health Care Workers – Guinea, 2014

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Bilivogui, Pepe ; Diallo, Boubacar ; Dixon, Meredith G. ; Dotson, Ellen ; Fitter, David L. ; Grinnell, Margaret ; Johnson, Candice Y. ; Patton, Monica ; Raghunathan, Pratima L. ; Rodier, Guenael
• Description:
  What is already known on this topic? Health care workers (HCWs) are at high risk for infection in outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (Ebola). Ebola infections in HCW can be reduced through thorough appropriate triage and adherence to good infection prevention and control practices. What is added by this report? During 2014, a total of 162 (7.9%) of 2,210 laboratory-confirmed or probable Ebola cases among Guineans aged >/=15 years occurred among HCWs, resulting in a cumulative incidence of Ebola infection among HCWs 42.2 times higher than among non-HCWs. Doctors and male HCWs were disproportionally affected compared with HCWs in other roles and female HCWs. What are the implications for public health practice? Ebola infections among HCWs are an important focus area for Ebola outbreak response, and thorough investigation of cases in HCWs is important to better understand sources of exposure, reasons for delay in isolation once symptoms develop, particular job tasks that increase the risk for infection, and reasons that particular groups, such as males and doctors, are disproportionally affected. An increased understanding of HCW risks for infection along with continuous infection prevention and control efforts are necessary to prevent Ebola infection in this high-risk occupational group. An errata correcting author affiliation was issued in Vol. 64, No.40 dated 10/16/2015. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Emergencies Epidemiology Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Viral Diseases

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• Keywords:
  Disease-control; Infection-control; Infectious-diseases; Disease-transmission; Disease-prevention; Viral-diseases; Viral-infections; Public-health; Surveillance-programs; Control-systems; Protective-measures; Safety-measures; Health-protection; Health-services; Health-care; Health-care-facilities; Health-care-personnel; Emergency-response; Epidemiology; Personal-protection; Personal-protective-equipment; Protective-clothing; Protective-equipment; Protective-materials; Doctors; Men; Risk-factors; Task-performance; Work-practices
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Guinea
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  38
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046794
• Citation:
  MMWR 2015 Oct; 64(38):1083-1087
• Email:
  mhgrinnell@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:72dfce43895424c17b85ff03b71c0dc43178f1220607a109d617b18f1da87cb7b15640b79cc02848c844fda9537d49b676c34dd75d402539cbbb8f3b296ec83c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248500/cdc_248500_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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