TY - JOUR AU - Keita, Mory AU - Keita, Sakoba AU - Diallo, Boubacar AU - Camara, Momo AU - Mesfin, Samuel AU - Nebie, Koumpingnin Yacouba AU - Magassouba, N’Faly AU - Coulibaly, Seydou AU - Barry, Boubacar AU - Baldé, Mamadou Oury AU - Pallawo, Raymond AU - Sow, Sadou AU - Diallo, Amadou Bailo AU - Formenty, Pierre AU - Djingarey, Mamoudou Harouna AU - Fall, Ibrahima Socé AU - Subissi, Lorenzo T1 - Public Health Program for Decreasing Risk for Ebola Virus Disease Resurgence from Survivors of the 2013–2016 Outbreak, Guinea T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 2 SP - 206 SN - 1080-6059 AB - At the end of the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea, we implemented an alert system for early detection of Ebola resurgence among survivors. Survivors were asked to report health alerts in their household and provide body fluid specimens for laboratory testing. During April–September 2016, a total of 1,075 (88%) of 1,215 survivors participated in the system; follow up occurred at a median of 16 months after discharge (interquartile range 14–18 months). Of these, 784 acted as focal points and reported 1,136 alerts (including 4 deaths among survivors). A total of 372 (91%) of 408 eligible survivors had >1 semen specimen tested; of 817 semen specimens, 5 samples from 4 survivors were positive up to 512 days after discharge. No lochia (0/7) or breast milk (0/69) specimens tested positive. Our findings underscore the importance of long-term monitoring of survivors’ semen samples in an Ebola-affected country. KW - Ebola KW - surveillance KW - Guinea KW - survivors KW - Africa KW - western KW - viruses KW - resurgence KW - West Africa KW - Ebola virus disease DO - 10.3201/eid2602.191235 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/2/19-1235_article ER - End of Reference