Reporting and Infection Control
If there is suspicion of Ebola disease in a patient based on clinical presentation, travel history, and epidemiologic risk factors, healthcare providers should immediately isolate the patient and inform their hospital's infection control program and their local health department.ā
Clinicians should include Ebola disease in the differential diagnosis for an ill person who has been to an area with an active Ebola disease outbreak in the past 21 days, and who has compatible symptoms (e.g., fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal symptoms, or unexplained bleeding), and who has reported one or more of the following epidemiologically compatible risk factors within the 21 days before symptom onset:ā
Had direct contact with a symptomatic person with suspected or confirmed Ebola disease (alive or dead), or with any objects contaminated by their body fluids
Experienced a breach in infection prevention and control precautions that resulted in the potential for contact with body fluids of a patient with suspected or confirmed Ebola disease
Participated in any of the following activities while in an area with an active Ebola disease outbreak:
āāHad contact with someone who was sick or died or with any objects contaminated by their body fluids
āAttended or participated in funeral rituals, including preparing bodies for funeral or burial
Visited or worked in a healthcare facility or laboratory
Had contact with cave-dwelling bats or non-human primates
āWorked or spent time in a mine or caveā