Immediate public-health routing

Ebola exposure checklist

Organise possible exposure timing, affected-area context and symptoms while contacting the official local response. This page has no live outbreak data and cannot assess whether a person has Ebola.

Possible exposure with symptoms, or symptoms in an affected area: act now. Avoid close contact and contact with blood or body fluids. Immediately call the official local public-health or health-service number before travelling when a call is possible, and follow their testing, isolation and transport directions. For collapse, confusion, difficulty waking or breathing, or inability to keep fluids down, call emergency services now and state the possible exposure or affected-area context.

Private checklist

Possible exposure
Current symptoms

Action summary

Complete the checklist. A result cannot rule out Ebola or replace local contact tracing.

How the escalation works

Confusion, collapse, difficulty waking or breathing, or inability to keep fluids down triggers emergency care. Possible exposure within the last 21 days plus symptoms, or affected-area context plus symptoms, triggers immediate separation and public-health contact. WHO reports a 2–21 day incubation range, but this app does not use timing to exclude exposure. A public-health contact designation always overrides this worksheet. An exposure entered as more than 21 days ago still routes to official timeline confirmation rather than self-clearance. Symptoms alone route to same-day clinical assessment because early Ebola symptoms overlap with other serious infections.

Only public-health and clinical teams can assess exposure, arrange testing, diagnose disease, set monitoring or isolation instructions, and direct transport. This app supplies no monitoring duration, treatment or outbreak lookup.

Official sources, reviewed 26 July 2026: WHO Ebola disease fact sheet (24 April 2025); WHO Ebola disease questions and answers.