viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2014

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CDC/ Sally Ezra

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This photograph was taken in the West African city of Conakry, at the capitol’s Maritime Port in Guinea, during the 2014 Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) outbreak, which not only affected Guinea, but northern Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria as well. In this particular view, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) response team members were observing a health screening procedure being conducted on a Port worker. Here, the healthcare screener was in the process of taking a thermal reading on the worker’s head using a ThermoFlash infrared thermometer, which monitors the temperature of a person’s skin surface, enabling a trained investigator to determine if an individual is exhibiting a fever. Those exhibiting a fever are then monitored for 21 days, so that they can be isolated, and treated as soon as possible if they develop additional symptoms of Ebola HF.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is one of numerous Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. It is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
Ebola HF is caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. When infection occurs, symptoms usually begin abruptly. The first Ebolavirus species was discovered in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo near the Ebola River. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically. See the Flickr site link below, for additional imagery produced by NIAID related to the study of Ebola.



CDC – National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP); Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever


  • Flickr – CDC Response to 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

    CDC Organization
    tree pictureOrganization – 2004 – present
    tree picturetree pictureOffice of the Director
    tree picturetree picturetree pictureOffice of Workforce and Career Development
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureEpidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Branch
    tree pictureRoles
    tree picturetree pictureCDC EIS Officers

    MeSH
    tree pictureDiseases
    tree picturetree pictureVirus Diseases
    tree picturetree picturetree pictureRNA Virus Infections
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureHemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureHemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureMononegavirales Infections
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureFiloviridae Infections
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureHemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
    tree pictureGeographic Locations
    tree picturetree pictureGeographic Locations
    tree picturetree picturetree pictureAfrica
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureAfrica South of the Sahara
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureAfrica, Western
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureGuinea
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureLiberia
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureNigeria
    tree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree picturetree pictureSierra Leone

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