Global & Disaster Medicine

Household Transmission of Ebola Virus: risks and preventive factors, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015

April 10th, 2018

J Infect Dis

“…..We enrolled 150 index Ebola cases and 838 contacts; 83 (9.9%) contacts developed Ebola during 21-day follow-up. In multivariable analysis, risk factors for transmission included index case death in the household, Ebola symptoms but no reported fever, age <20 years, more days with wet symptoms; and providing care to the index case (P<0.01 for each). Protective factors included avoiding the index case after illness onset and a piped household drinking water source (P<0.01 for each).….”

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