Ebola virus disease cluster in the United States--Dallas County, Texas, 2014

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Nov 21;63(46):1087-8.

Abstract

Since March 10, 2014, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have experienced the largest known Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic with approximately 13,000 persons infected as of October 28, 2014. Before September 25, 2014, only four patients with Ebola had been treated in the United States; all of these patients had been diagnosed in West Africa and medically evacuated to the United States for care.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Contact Tracing*
  • Ebolavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Epidemics / prevention & control*
  • Female
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / diagnosis*
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Liberia / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Population Surveillance*
  • Texas / epidemiology
  • Travel