Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2017)

Lack of Secondary Transmission of Ebola Virus from Healthcare Worker to 238 Contacts, United Kingdom, December 2014

  • Paul Crook,
  • Alison Smith-Palmer,
  • Helen Maguire,
  • Noel McCarthy,
  • Hilary Kirkbride,
  • Bruce Court,
  • Sanch Kanagarajah,
  • Deborah Turbitt,
  • Syed Ahmed,
  • Paul Cosford,
  • Isabel Oliver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.171100
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 12
pp. 2081 – 2084

Abstract

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In December 2014, Ebola virus disease (EVD) was diagnosed in a healthcare worker in the United Kingdom after the worker returned from an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. The worker flew on 2 flights during the early stages of disease. Follow-up of 238 contacts showed no evidence of secondary transmission of Ebola virus.

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