Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Epidemics: Preparedness, Alert, Control, and Evaluation; Interim manual version 1.2

Publication language
English
Pages
123pp
Date published
01 Aug 2014
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disaster preparedness, Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Link
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/manual_EVD/en/

The main target audience of this document are district-level health-care workers (doctors, nurses, and paramedics), as well as intermediate- and central-level health-care workers responsible for epidemic control, and International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Points (NFPs).

The objective of this document is to describe preparedness, prevention, and control measures that have been implemented successfully during previous epidemics. These measures must be implemented during the following four phases:

Pre-epidemic preparedness;
Alert (identify, investigate, evaluate risks);
Outbreak response and containment operations;
Post-epidemic evaluation.