Ebola – Information for Healthcare Professionals

Information on this page pertains to healthcare settings, including acute care hospitals, physicians’ offices, urgent care centers, and outpatient clinics. The recommendations and guidance may also be applicable to other settings where health care is delivered, such as school/work health clinics. 

If evaluating a patient suspected to have Ebola Disease, providers should immediately notify their facility’s infection control program, other appropriate facility staff, and their local health department.

General Information

• CDC HAN Health Advisory: Ebola Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (May 19, 2026)
• How to locate and contact your local health department for consultation
• CDC Clinical Guidance for Ebola Disease
• CDC Posters and Factsheets
  • Is It Flu or Ebola?

Clinician Outreach and Training Resources

• VHEMP Webinar: VDH Updates on Hantavirus and Ebola Outbreaks and Summer Preparedness on May 20, 2026 
  • Presentation Slide Set 
  • Recording of the Presentation 
• NETEC Health Care Facility Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) Preparedness Checklist
• NETEC: Ebola Virus Disease Channel

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers

• VDH’s Office of Emergency Medical Services Ebola Virus Disease website
• CDC Interim Guidance for EMS Systems and 9-1-1 Answering Points
• NETEC EMS Biosafety – Identify, Isolate, Inform

Evaluation Criteria

• CDC Clinical Screening and Diagnosis for VHFs

Infection Control and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• CDC: Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients in U.S. Hospitals who are Suspected or Confirmed to have Selected Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHF) 
• CDC PPE: Clinically Stable Patients Suspected to have VHF
• CDC PPE: Confirmed Patients and Clinically Unstable Patients Suspected to have VHF
• CDC Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Donning and Doffing PPE During Management of Patients with Selected VHF in U.S. Hospitals
• NETEC: Infection Prevention and Control Channel

Laboratory Testing 

• DCLS Ebola and Marburg Testing and Shipping Instructions
• CDC Guidance on Performing Routine Diagnostic Testing for Patients with Suspected VHFs or Other High-Consequence Disease
• CDC VHF Clinical Specimen Packaging and Shipping

Organizations Sending U.S.-based Healthcare or Emergency Response Workers 

• CDC Recommendations for Organizations Sending U.S.-based Personnel to Areas with VHF Outbreaks

 

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