Ebola and Marburg virus disease epidemics: preparedness, alert, control, and evaluation

Overview

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: (1) Pre-epidemic preparedness (2) Alert (identify, investigate, evaluate risks) (3) Outbreak response and containment operations (4) Post-epidemic evaluation.