Public Health Office of the Slovak Republic (ÚVZ SR) is in permanent contact with European competent authorities and participate in audioconferences of foreign committees dealing with the above issues. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Diagnostics (ECDC) regularly sends ÚVZ SR, Department of Epidemiology, updated information about the development of the epidemiological situation of the disease. Although the risk of infection for travelers from Slovakia who visited the countries of West Africa is low, ÚZ SR issued the following measures:
persons returning from the affected areas should monitor their at least 21 days after arrival, which is the incubation period of the disease (2 – 21 days),
in the case of travellers returning from the affected areas develop clinical signs such as fever, unexplained fatigue, diarrhoea, sore throat, cough or other severe symptoms will remain at home and contact your treating doctor by telephone and inform them about the travel history,
treating personnel of the medical institution receiving the suspect the person from the disease is provided with a protective device before such a patient arrives devices,
the treating physician will evaluate the clinical condition after summoning the patient, provide the necessary laboratory examinations in the differential diagnosis to exclude other diagnoses;
the treating physician reports suspicion of Ebola to the relevant regional the public health authority and the territorially relevant infectious clinic (s); the infectious department, which should consult the Clinic in the next procedure infectology and geographical medicine in Bratislava, since this one has beds complying with BSL 4 biosecurity level;
the regional competent authority shall ensure complete epidemiological examination of the case and the result of the examination will report to the ÚVZ SR - Department epidemiology. Department of Microbiology of the ÚVZ SR is in contact with appropriate laboratories abroad capable of investigating the virus Ebola.