CDC has activated
its Emergency Operations Center to respond to
Ebola. Below,
please find resources and guidance that we hope will be useful
to you
and
your organization. Please share with your colleagues and
networks.
In this email:
o Announcements
o Ebola Cases
and Deaths (West Africa)
o Online Resources
o Summary Key
Messages (full Key Messages
document attached)
Announcements
CDC update on first
Ebola case diagnosed
in the United States
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden stated in an October 8 press briefing: “Today we are
deeply saddened by the death of the patient in Dallas. Despite maximal interventions, we learned today that he passed away and our thoughts go out to his family and friends.
He is a face that we associate now
with
Ebola. Since the start of the epidemic, 3,742 patients in West Africa have been documented to have died from the disease. We don't have their faces as prominently in front of us, and we know that even
more people have been affected. So we think about this and we remember what a deadly enemy Ebola is and how important it is that we take every step possible to both protect American’s and stop the outbreak at its source in Africa.”
Enhanced Ebola Screening
to Start at Five U.S. Airports and
New
Tracking
Program for all People Entering U.S. from Ebola-affected
Countries
CDC and the Department of Homeland Security's
Customs
& Border Protection (CBP)
announced new layers of entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94
percent of travelers
from the Ebola-affected nations
of
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra
Leone.
Updated Travel Notices
CDC has
updated travel notices
for
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria. Travel
notices are designed to inform travelers and clinicians about current health issues
related to specific
destinations.
Ebola Cases and Deaths (West Africa)
As of October 5, 2014*
· Suspected and Confirmed Case Count: 8033
· Suspected Case Deaths: 3865
· Laboratory Confirmed Cases: 4461
*Case counts
updated
in conjunction
with World Health Organization updates and
are based on
information
reported by
the Ministries of Health.
Online Resources
General Outbreak Information:
New Or Updated Guidance Documents: (Full range of guidance documents can be
found at the
CDC Ebola Web site)
(UPDATED)
CDC Safety Training Course for Healthcare Workers
Going to West Africa in Response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Interim Guidance for Emergency Medical
Services
(EMS) Systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points
(PSAPs) for Management of Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the United States
Additional Guidance Documents:
Multimedia Resources:
Content Syndication:
Add a CDC Ebola
Microsite to your web page.
The embed code for this
microsite is available in CDC’s new syndication site, the
Public Health Media Library. Ebola HTML content, images, and other media are being added and also available for syndication from this
site. Please contact
IMTech@cdc.gov
for technical support.
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Outbreak Summary Key Messages
A full key messages
document is
attached. Also, please note that NEW information has
been highlighted in red.
On August 8, WHO declared that the current Ebola outbreak is a Public
Health
Emergency of International
Concern (PHEIC).
West Africa.
o CDC is communicating with U.S. healthcare workers
about how to detect
and isolate patients who may have Ebola and how they can protect
themselves
from infection.
o Most of the cases have been reported in three countries: Guinea, Liberia,
and Sierra Leone.
There were a small number of cases in Nigeria that have been linked to a man from Liberia who traveled to Lagos, Nigeria and died from Ebola.
On September 20, WHO
reported that the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria
was contained. No new Ebola cases have been reported in Nigeria since September 5.
In Senegal, one case has been confirmed. No deaths
or
additional suspected cases have been reported. The case is
in a
man from
Guinea who traveled by road to Senegal.
o The Democratic Republic
of
the Congo (DRC) has reported cases of Ebola
in a
remote area of the country. However, WHO
received test results
showing the Ebola virus strain causing the outbreak in the DRC is different from the strain in the current outbreak in West Africa. These results
confirm that the two outbreaks are unrelated.
Information on the outbreak in DRC can be found at
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/drc/2014-august.html.
On October 5, Uganda’s Ministry of Health released a statement confirming a
case of Marburg, a fatal
illness
caused by the Marburg virus, which is related to
the
Ebola virus. The patient, a man who worked as a radiographer in a health center, did not survive. One contact of the person developed signs and has been
isolated for further monitoring.
On September 23, CDC released an MMWR article, “Estimating the Future
Number
of
Cases in the Ebola Epidemic – Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014-2015,” which estimated the future number of Ebola cases if current trends
continue. The projected numbers were adjusted to account for estimated underreporting of cases.
o Without additional
interventions or changes in community behavior, CDC
estimates that by January 20, 2015, there will be a total of approximately
550,000 Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone, or 1.4 million if
corrections
for underreporting are made.
o Cases in Liberia are currently doubling every 15-20 days, and those in
Sierra Leone and Guinea are doubling every 30-40 days.
o The MMWR
is available at
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su63e0923a1.htm,
and a Q&A on the report is
available at http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/qa-mmwr-
CDC’s response to Ebola is
the agency’s
largest international outbreak response
ever.
o USAID continues
to
lead the public
health component of the United States’ overseas
response to the Ebola outbreak, while the Department of
Defense, CDC, Department of State, and other departments and agencies
are supporting the whole-of-government approach to this national security
priority. In the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services, including CDC, is in charge of the strategic effort to fortify the U.S.
public health and treatment infrastructure. The National Institutes
of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are leading the
effort to develop and test vaccines
and new treatments.
On September 16, President Obama announced additional U.S.
government
support for the response in West Africa, including significant U.S. military funding and engagement.
o U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) will set up a regional command in
Monrovia, Liberia, to facilitate the coordination of the response and to
expedite the transportation of equipment, supplies, and personnel.
o Additional
Ebola treatment units will be established in the affected areas, as well
as
a site to train up to 500 health workers per week to care for
patients.
o The U.S. Public
Health Service Commissioned Corps will deploy 65 health
workers to support a state-of-the-art Department of Defense hospital that will be placed in Monrovia to provide care to health workers
who become
sick.
On September
30, CDC
confirmed the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the
United States in a person who had traveled from Liberia to Dallas, Texas.
o The patient had no symptoms when leaving West Africa, but developed symptoms approximately four days after arriving in the United States on
September 20.
o The patient was
admitted to a Dallas
hospital
on
September 28. The medical
facility isolated the patient and sent specimens for testing at CDC
and at a Texas
lab
participating in CDC’s Laboratory Response Network. Test results
from both laboratories confirmed that the patient had Ebola.
o A CDC team was dispatched to Dallas to assist
with the investigation on
September 30.
o The patient passed away on October 8, 2014.
LINK TO WEST AFRICA EBOLA UPDATE