?j\jQI"8dDbD n. Tasks: Review the Ebola materials assembled for you by a team of experts and then use what you've learned to create a strategy to stop the outbreak. It was the third outbreak in the province in the last four years. Epidemiology of Epidemic Ebola Virus Disease in Conakry and Surrounding World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Ecologic and geographic distribution of filovirus disease. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-recommended-criteria-for-declaring-the-end-of-the-ebola-virus-disease-outbreak, UK Health Security Agency: ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers - outbreaks and case locations This means that health care workers should be encouraged to document and report those they think have been exposed and their contacts. The triangle comprises three vertices: the agent (the cause of the infection), the host (disease reservoir), and the environment (extraneous factors) responsible for transmission (Kaur, Sachdeya, Jha, & Sulania, 2017). Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! How many Ebola patients have been treated outside of Africa? Spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. January 2023 [internet publication]. It most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimpanzees, and gorillas. Originally, Ebola had never touched the United States until September of 2014. Ebola virus has been found in wild animals, such as fruit bats, monkeys, chimpanzees or gorillas, in parts of central and west Africa. The Triangle has three. The lack of IPC training lead to health care workers being 100 times more likely than the general population to contract Ebola (Ratnayake et al. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the most virulent pathogens among viral hemorrhagic fevers affecting economically deprived countries of the world with reported case fatality rates of up to 90% due to multiorgan failure and severe bleeding complications. Some observations have shown the decrease in case fatality ratio after several generations of patient-to-patient passage. As the prevalence of Ebola grew, the WHO maintained contact with its regional offices in West Africa. PDF Name: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413685 Disease outbreak news. "7b8= n4k7yRRQM>)/@I3X^s+}p-0+f9Gzw3MP:I&hRtqik pulo8jy@fia\evQ r8Xd`wf3tGB}OxCu,t^&V1VM/a'x(=O&)%kRYe8hCgU9Dq}!