Recommendations for passengers to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria
The Ebola epidemic centre is currently in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Persons travelling to or from affected areas should be managed recommendations and preventive measures:
- Avoid direct contact with the blood and body fluids of patients or dead persons and articles likely to be contaminated;
- Avoid contact with live or dead wildlife animals and do not consume meat of animals;
- avoid unprotected intercourse;
- Avoid places where bats could live, for example caves, remote shelters or mines;
- wash your hands regularly with soap or disinfectants.
It should be borne in mind that there is a risk in healthcare facilities The following recommendations should therefore be accepted by travellers:
- Identify appropriate health care options in the country through local business contacts, friends or relatives;
- Ensure that travel insurance involves medical evacuation (transfer) in to prevent virus exposure in local health establishments.
In addition, travellers should follow the recommendations of national authorities for travel to affected countries.
Recommendations for persons returning from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria or Sierra Leone
The risk of you being exposed to the Ebola virus is very low. The important thing is However, follow the following recommendations:
If you develop fever within a few weeks of returning, unexplained fatigue, diarrhoea or other serious symptoms (for example vomiting, unexplained bleeding, severe headaches):
- seek medical care immediately and inform your doctor about your history of travel as symptoms are similar to other infections such as for example malaria, which requires immediate investigation and treatment.
If you have been directly exposed to body fluids living or dead infected persons or animals, including unprotected intercourse with treated patients:
- seek medical care immediately and inform your doctor about your travel history;
- before visiting by phone contact the medical facility to get medical personnel may have obtained appropriate protection prior to admission aids.
The World Health Organization recommended that the affected countries introduce screening of persons with an unexplained disease when travelling, could indicate an infection with the Ebola virus, and to make people they have infected or come into contact with the virus, have not travelled from affected countries, unless it is a medical evacuation of the patient.