Term | Used by | To decide on | Criteria |
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Alert case | Community members, health care workers not directly involved in EHF response | Alert mobile surveillance team? | A1 Any person with sudden onset of fever A2 Any person with haemorrhage A3 Any sudden death |
Suspect case | Mobile surveillance team | Transport to hospital? | S1 Any person who [had slept in the same house as a case, or had touched the body of a case (dead or alive), or had touched linens or body fluids of a case] AND has fever S2 Any person who has at least three of the following symptoms: [headache, nausea/vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, intense fatigue, abdominal pain, muscle or joint pain, difficulty with swallowing, difficulty with breathing, hiccup] AND has fever S3 Any person with any of the following symptoms: bleeding gums, bleeding into the eyes, bleeding into the skin, black or bloody stool, bloody vomit, nose bleed |
Probable case | Clinicians of isolation unit | Isolate patient and take blood sample for EHF testing? | As for suspect case, plus not explicitly defined clinical criteria for differential diagnoses |
Confirmed case | Clinicians of isolation unit | Transfer patient to confirmed case section within Ebola ward? | C1 A probable case with a positive Ebola antigen capture ELISA or PCR C2 A probable case with prior contact to another confirmed case and positive for anti-Ebola IgG ELISA |