Details - Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

Details - Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

ID#:	17732
Description:	This photograph was taken in the West African nation of Nigeria, in the country’s largest city of Lagos, and depicts what was known as “The Old Isolation Ward”, which had been labeled “Ward B” used to house male patients infected with the Ebola virus, and ill with Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF). In this particular scene, a number of World Health Organization (WHO) workers were gearing up to enter the isolation ward having donned their personal protective equipment (PPE), protecting them from Ebola virus contamination. This was a “hot zone”, which is an area where patients are being treated, and where occupants are at highest risk of being infected. See PHIL 17722 and 17729, for images showing the interior of a new, more modern isolation ward implemented during the 2014 Ebola HF outbreak across Guinea, northern Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is one of numerous Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. It is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). Ebola HF is caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. When infection occurs, symptoms usually begin abruptly. The first Ebolavirus species was discovered in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo near the Ebola River. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically. See the Flickr site link below, for additional imagery related to the 2014 Ebola viral outbreak.
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Content Providers(s):	CDC/ Daniel DeNoon
Creation Date:	2014
Photo Credit:	Bryan Christensen
Links:	CDC – National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP); Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Flickr – CDC Response to 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Categories:	CDC Organization Organization – 2004 – present Office of the Director Office of Workforce and Career Development Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Branch Roles CDC EIS Officers MeSH Diseases Virus Diseases RNA Virus Infections Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Mononegavirales Infections Filoviridae Infections Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Geographic Locations Geographic Locations Africa Africa South of the Sahara Africa, Western Guinea Liberia Nigeria Sierra Leone
Copyright Restrictions:	None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.