10/15/2014

Ebola Potentially Hits Ohio

ODH Updates Health Care Providers

The Ohio Department of Health today (Oct 15) issued an update (below) regarding the potential Ohio impact of the Ebola infections that have occurred in Dallas Texas.

Additionally, ODH has published two documents (one-page fact sheet and one-page message points) that might be helpful in your centers for both patients and staff.  Please feel free to share and post.

 Ebola Message Points

Ebola Fact Sheet

Contact the OAASC, ODH or your local health department with any concerns or for additional information.

************ ODH ALERT ***********

This morning October 15, 2014, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified the Ohio Department of Health that the second healthcare worker in Dallas diagnosed with Ebola visited family in Akron from October 8-13.

ODH is working with the Summit County Public Health and the CDC to identify people who may have been in close contact with this healthcare worker and to implement quarantines as necessary. In addition, ODH is working with CDC to identify individuals that may have traveled on the same flight to Dallas.

It is critical that healthcare workers ask about travel to West Africa. It is now also important to ask whether individuals have had contact with a person ill with Ebola in the USA. Healthcare workers are reminded of the appropriate use of PPE as indicated. We are working to identify close contacts of this newly diagnosed case and we will work with local health departments to conduct contact monitoring.


Alert Id: 12948
Acknowledge: Yes
Alert Program: HAN
Delivery Time: 60 minutes
Event Status: Actual
Jurisdictional Level: State, Local
MessageType: Alert
Sensitive: No
Severity: Extreme