title: Surveillance and preparedness for Ebola virus disease -- New York City, 2014.
abstract: In July 2014, as the Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic expanded in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, an air traveler brought Ebola to Nigeria and two American health care workers in West Africa were diagnosed with Ebola and later medically evacuated to a U.S. hospital. New York City (NYC) is a frequent port of entry for travelers from West Africa, a home to communities of West African immigrants who travel back to their home countries, and a home to health care workers who travel to West Africa to treat Ebola patients. Ongoing transmission of Ebolavirus in West Africa could result in an infected person arriving in NYC. The announcement on September 30 of an Ebola case diagnosed in Texas in a person who had recently arrived from an Ebola-affected country further reinforced the need in NYC for local preparedness for Ebola.
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Benowitz
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ackelsberg
authors.forename: Sharon E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Balter
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Baumgartner
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dentinger
authors.forename: Anne D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Fine
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.forename: Lucretia E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laraque
authors.forename: Ellen H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Giselle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Merizalde
authors.forename: Kari A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Yacisin
authors.forename: Jay K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Varma
authors.forename: Marcelle C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Layton
mesh_terms: D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance