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O-25 - Almost all Yambuku Ebola cases traced to reused hospital needles or contact with a case, and the outbreak collapsed when the hospital closed

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O-25
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Transmission was dominated by iatrogenic amplification at Yambuku Mission Hospital: almost all cases after the index had either received injections at the hospital (via reused, unsterilized needles and syringes) or had had close contact with another case; most cases occurred in the first four weeks, after which the hospital closed with 11 of its 17 staff dead of the disease.
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S-88 - International Commission 1978 — Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976
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Results/Discussion, Bull. WHO 1978
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almost all subsequent cases had either received injections at the hospital or had had close contact with another case
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The outbreak’s collapse after hospital closure (quote: ‘the hospital was closed, 11 of the 17 staff members having died of the disease’) indicates the venue amplified rather than originated transmission.

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