Use of contact isolation to prevent spread: Ebola outbreak in a healthworkers base camp, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone, March 2015

摘要

Background: The West African Ebola disease outbreak which started in Guinea in December 2013 has ravaged neighboring countries including Sierra Leone. Health care workers were reported to be the most at risk population. In March 2015, an exposed health worker developed fever and other non-specific symptoms of EVD which prompted investigation to describe its magnitude, identify and ascertain level of risks of contacts and contain the outbreak using contact isolation techniques.