Lack of Secondary Transmission of Ebola Virus from Healthcare Worker to 238 Contacts, United Kingdom, December 2014

Authors :: Alison Smith-Palmer
Syed Sayeem Uddin Ahmed
Helen Maguire
Noel D. McCarthy
Isabel Oliver
Paul Cosford
Sanch Kanagarajah
Deborah Turbitt
Bruce Court
Hilary Kirkbride
Paul Crook
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 23, Iss 12, Pp 2081-2084 (2017), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
Abstract: In December 2014, Ebola virus disease (EVD) was diagnosed in a healthcare worker in the United Kingdom after the worker returned from an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. The worker flew on 2 flights during the early stages of disease. Follow-up of 238 contacts showed no evidence of secondary transmission of Ebola virus.

Subjects :: 0301 basic medicine
Epidemiology
International Cooperation
viruses
lcsh:Medicine
airports
communicable diseases
medicine.disease_cause
contact tracing
Disease Outbreaks
Ebola virus
0302 clinical medicine
London
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Travel
Transmission (medicine)
public health
Dispatch
virus diseases
Healthcare worker
Ebolavirus
EVD
Treatment center
Infectious Diseases
England
Female
aircraft
hemorrhagic fever
Adult
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Personnel
Ebola virus disease
Sierra Leone
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Sierra leone
03 medical and health sciences
healthcare worker
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
Lack of Secondary Transmission of Ebola Virus from Healthcare Worker to 238 Contacts, United Kingdom, December 2014
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:R
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Virology
United Kingdom
zoonoses
secondary transmission
030104 developmental biology
Scotland
Family medicine
business
Contact tracing

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