Use of Peripheral Health Units in Low-Transmission Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance | Zendy

Alyssa J. Young | Zendy; Allison Connolly | Zendy; Adam Hoar | Zendy; Brooke Mancuso | Zendy; John Mark Esplana | Zendy; Guddu Kaur | Zendy; Laura Fisher | Zendy; Mary-Anne Hartley | Zendy; Anh-Minh A Tran | Zendy

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Use of Peripheral Health Units in Low-Transmission Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance

Author(s) -

Alyssa J. Young,

Allison Connolly,

Adam Hoar,

Brooke Mancuso,

John Mark Esplana,

Guddu Kaur,

Laura Fisher,

Mary-Anne Hartley,

Anh-Minh A Tran

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6596

Subject(s) - sierra leone , ebola virus , malaria , medicine , ebolavirus , transmission (telecommunications) , medical emergency , disease , intensive care medicine , virology , environmental health , outbreak , immunology , computer science , telecommunications , development economics , economics

Surveillance strategies for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone use a centralized "live alert" system to refer suspect cases from the community to specialized Ebola treatment centers. As EVD case burden declined in Port Loko District, Sierra Leone so did the number of reported alerts. Because EVD presents similarly to malaria, the number of alerts should remain consistent with malaria prevalence in malaria-endemic areas, irrespective of the reduction in true EVD cases. A community-based EVD surveillance system with improved symptom recording and follow-up of malaria-confirmed patients at PHUs was implemented in order to strengthen the sensitivity of EVD reporting.

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