The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their guidance on 10/27/2014 to help protect America from Ebola. This updated guidance focuses on strengthening how we monitor people who may have been exposed to Ebola and how medical professionals will oversee their care and, when warranted to protect the public health or our communities, limit their movement or activities. Through these changes, CDC and state and local health departments seek to support people who may have been exposed to Ebola, while also continuing to stop Ebola at its source in West Africa through the valor of our health care workers who serve. These changes will help ensure their symptoms are monitored and a system is in place to quickly recognize when they need to be routed to care. These actions will better protect potentially exposed individuals and the American public as a whole.
New risk levels were established and I have included the 'Low' and 'No' risk below. Please use the link at the bottom of this post for additional information about the updated guidance.
Low risk (but not zero)—
- having been in a country with widespread Ebola transmission within the previous 21 days and having no known exposure
- being in the same room for a brief period of time (without direct contact) with a person showing symptoms of Ebola
- having brief skin contact with a person showing symptoms of Ebola when the person was believed to be not very contagious
- in countries without widespread Ebola transmission: direct contact with a person showing symptoms of Ebola while wearing PPE
- travel on an airplane with a person showing symptoms of Ebola
- contact with a person who is NOT showing symptoms AFTER that person was in contact with a person with Ebola
- contact with a person with Ebola BEFORE the person was showing symptoms
- having traveled to a country with Ebola outbreak MORE than 21 days ago
- having been in a country where there is no widespread Ebola transmission (e.g., the United States), and having no other exposures to Ebola
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