http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/ebola_marburg_fevers/EVDcasedefinition/Pages/default.aspx
Clinical criteria
Any person currently presenting or having presented before death:- Fever ≥38.6°C
- Severe headache
- Vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain
- Unexplained haemorrhagic manifestations in various forms
- Multi-organ failure
Laboratory criteria
Any of the following:- Detection of Ebola virus nucleic acid in a clinical specimen and confirmation by sequencing or a second assay on different genomic targets.
- Isolation of Ebola virus from a clinical specimen.
Epidemiological criteria
In the 21 days before the onset of symptoms:- having been in an affected area;
- having had contact with a probable or confirmed EVD case.
High-risk exposure criteria
Any of the following:- close face-to-face contact (e.g. within one metre) without appropriate personal protective equipment (including eye protection) with a probable or confirmed case who was coughing, vomiting, bleeding, or who had diarrhoea; or had unprotected sexual contact with a case up to three months after recovery;
- direct contact with any material soiled by bodily fluids from a probable or confirmed case;
- percutaneous injury (e.g. with needle) or mucosal exposure to bodily fluids, tissues or laboratory specimens of a probable or confirmed case;
- participation in funeral rites with direct exposure to human remains in or from an affected area without appropriate personal protective equipment;
- direct contact with bats, rodents, primates, living or dead, in or from affected areas, or bushmeat.
