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Ebola Virus
2010 Case Definition

Ebola Virus
2010 Case Definition
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NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Subtype(s)

  • Viral hemorrhagic fever
  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
  • Lassa virus
  • Marburg virus
  • New World arenavirus – Guanarito virus
  • New World arenavirus – Junin virus
  • New World arenavirus – Machupo virus
  • New World arenavirus – Sabia virus

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Last Reviewed: April 16, 2021
Source: Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology