CDC Ebola guidance : evaluating international travelers for level of risk

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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:
  Air Travel Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Risk Assessment Travel
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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