We report 77 cases of occupational exposures for 57 healthcare workers at the Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea, during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014-2015. Despite the high incidence of 3.5 occupational exposures/healthcare worker/year, only 18% of workers were at high risk for transmission, and no infections occurred.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5547773 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.161804 | DOI Listing |
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