Health care workers’ awareness and infection control practices about Ebola virus disease in Hajj 2015

• Published in: Journal of infection and public health Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 720 - 725
• Main Authors: Alsahafi, Abdullah J., Cheng, Allen C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2019; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Cross-Sectional Studies; Crowding; Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control; Ebola virus disease; Female; Hajj; Health care workers; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Personnel - education; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - transmission; Hospitals; Humans; Infection Control - methods; Islam; Male; Mass gathering; Middle Aged; Pilgrimage; Saudi Arabia; Surveys and Questionnaires; Saudi Arabia; Health care workers; Hajj; Pilgrimage; Mass gathering; Ebola virus disease

Saudi Arabia being a major pilgrimage center with an annual turnover of millions of pilgrims from all over the world has a high risk for transmission of infections; Ebola virus disease (EVD) being one of them. Health care workers (HCWs) are particularly vulnerable to these infections. The objectives...