Ebola Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Patients and household members==== The infected person should be in [[Isolation (health care)|barrier-isolation]] from other people.<ref name=CDC2014P/> All equipment, medical waste, patient waste and surfaces that may have come into contact with body fluids need to be [[disinfection|disinfected]].<ref name="CDCBook1998">{{Cite book | vauthors = Peters CJ |url= https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/abroad/pdf/african-healthcare-setting-vhf.pdf |title=Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting |date=December 1998 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708093022/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/abroad/pdf/african-healthcare-setting-vhf.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> During the 2014 outbreak, kits were put together to help families treat Ebola disease in their homes, which included protective clothing as well as [[chlorine powder]] and other cleaning supplies.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://time.com/3481394/equipping-homes-to-treat-ebola-patients/ | title = This Is How Ebola Patients Are Equipping Their Homes | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150305172616/http://time.com/3481394/equipping-homes-to-treat-ebola-patients/ | archive-date=5 March 2015 | work = Time Magazine | vauthors = Sifferlin A | date = 9 October 2014 }}</ref> Education of caregivers in these techniques, and providing such barrier-separation supplies has been a priority of [[Doctors Without Borders]].<ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Sheri F, Nossiter A, Kanter J |date=10 October 2014 |title=Doctors Without Borders Evolves as It Forms the Vanguard in Ebola Fight |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/africa/doctors-without-borders-evolves-as-it-forms-the-vanguard-in-ebola-fight-.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014172320/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/africa/doctors-without-borders-evolves-as-it-forms-the-vanguard-in-ebola-fight-.html |archive-date=14 October 2014}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page