Evaluating Patients for Possible Ebola Virus Disease: Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel and Health Officials [October 2, 2014, 20:00 ET (8:00 PM ET)]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Description:
  October 2, 2014, 20:00 ET (8:00 PM ET)
  
  CDCHAN-00371
  
  The first case of Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) diagnosed in the United States was reported to CDC by Dallas County Health and Human Services on September 28, 2014, and laboratory-confirmed by CDC and the Texas Laboratory Response Network (LRN) laboratory on September 30. The patient departed Monrovia, Liberia, on September 19, and arrived in Dallas, Texas, on September 20. The patient was asymptomatic during travel and upon his arrival in the United States; he fell ill on September 24 and sought medical care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas on September 26. He was treated and released. On September 28, he returned to the same hospital, and was admitted for treatment.
  
  The purpose of this HAN Advisory is to remind healthcare personnel and health officials to:
  
  (1) increase their vigilance in inquiring about a history of travel to West Africa in the 21 days before illness onset for any patient presenting with fever or other symptoms consistent with Ebola;
  
  (2) isolate patients who report a travel history to an Ebola-affected country (currently Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea) and who are exhibiting Ebola symptoms in a private room with a private bathroom and implement standard, contact, and droplet precautions (gowns, facemask, eye protection, and gloves); and
  
  (3) immediately notify the local/state health department.
  
  Please disseminate this information to infectious disease specialists, intensive care physicians, primary care physicians, and infection control specialists, as well as to emergency departments, urgent care centers, and microbiology laboratories.?
  
  
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• Subjects:
  Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/diagnosis Patient Isolation
• Keywords:
  HAN Health Alert Network
• Source:
  HAN ; 371
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Advisory
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  Texas
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  00371
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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