PPT-EBOLA CONTACT TRACING FOR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

An Overview of North Carolinas Procedure for Ebola Contact Tracing Guidance Tools and Exercises for Public Health Operation Ready Set Go Presented by the NC Communicable Disease Branch . Contact tracing is 57375nding everyone who comes in direct contact with a sick Ebola patient Contacts are watched for signs of illness for 21 days from the last day they came in contact with the Ebola patient If the contact develops a fever or other 573845744257452574555745557444573885737657462574555745357449574605738857376574565744557445573885737657456574555745557456573885737657459574635744557441574605738857376 VHPHQ5735957347VSLW5735957347RWKHU5734757536XLGV57356 Objects contaminated with the Ebola in Sierra Leone, a crisis out of control. Marian . kruijzen. , . Cordaid. HealthCare Sierra Leone. Overview of the presentation. Ebola in Sierra Leone, a crisis out of control. Causes of the Ebola crisis being out of control. Tracing and Additional Operational Procedures. Adapted from the FAD PReP/NAHEMS Guidelines: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Tracing (2011).. Tracing . USDA APHIS and CFSPH. FAD PReP/NAHEMS Guidelines: Surveillance, Epi, and Tracing - Tracing . Virus . Disease: treatment, gaps and options. Ellis Owusu-Dabo . (BSc, MB ChB. , MSc, PhD, MWACP, FGCP) . Director, . KCCR/KNUST, Kumasi. , . Ghana . www.kccr-ghana.org. . Established in . October 1997. Current . S. tatus and Future Prospects. William Schaffner, MD. Professor of Preventive Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Consultant, Communicable Disease Control. Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever that can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or unprotected mucous membranes) with:. Ithar . Hassaballa. 1. . Charles Sepers. 1. , Stephen Fawcett. 1. , Davison Munodawafa. 2. , Peter Phori. 2. , Ephraim Chiriseri. 2. , Florence . DiGennaro. Reed. 1. , and Jerry Schultz. 1. 1. Department . exposed to COVID-19 But scammers are pretending to be contact tracers too Here146s how you can spot the scamFor more information about contact tracing visit your state health department146s website an anyone who was close to a person who is infected with a virus. the earliest known or suspected case of disease infection in an outbreak. collecting/analyzing data about a disease to monitor trends and outbreaks. . Health Promotion and Contact Tracing. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This presentation is current . as of December, 2014. This . presentation contains materials from . Upon arrival to clinical setting/triage Assess the patient for a fever (subjective or  00.4°F / 38.0°C) Determine if the patient has symptoms compatible EVD such as headache, weakness, muscle 29 This is part one of a three-part lecture on this topic. This lecture will focus on EVD in the West African setting. The training and information you receive in this course will not cover the use . November 2014. What is Ebola? . . The Ebola virus. X. A perfect storm? . . Where the outbreak began . War and conflict. Travel . April 2014. Were warnings ignored?. . . Health . Water . Sanitation .