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! ===Contact tracing=== [[Contact tracing]] is considered important to contain an outbreak. It involves finding everyone who had close contact with infected individuals and monitoring them for signs of illness for 21 days. If any of these contacts comes down with the disease, they should be isolated, tested and treated. Then the process is repeated, tracing the contacts' contacts.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Frieden TR, Damon I, Bell BP, Kenyon T, Nichol S |date=25 September 2014 |title=Ebola 2014 β New Challenges, New Global Response and Responsibility |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |volume=371 |issue=13 |pages=1177β1180 |doi=10.1056/NEJMp1409903 |pmid=25140858|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Contact Tracing? |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/contact-tracing.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912114723/https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/contact-tracing.pdf |archive-date=12 September 2014 |access-date=15 September 2014 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)}}</ref> {{anchor|Treatment}} 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