A team of experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – supported 24/7 by the CDC's full Emergency Operations Center – arrived in Texas and worked closely with Texas state and local health departments to investigate the Ebola cases in Dallas. Similar teams of infectious disease experts and public health practitioners will be deployed to areas of the United States to assist in the care and contact tracing of additional cases.
These CDC experts will assist state and local health departments find, assess, and assist everyone who came into contact with the Ebola patients. The CDC experts will help ensure that proper infection control procedures are followed, and monitor healthcare workers treating or attending to the patient. Long experience shows that these tried-and-true core public health interventions stop the spread of Ebola. CDC has provided guidance to airlines for managing ill passengers and disinfecting aircraft if needed. CDC has issued many guidelines to healthcare workers about how to safely evaluate a patient who might have Ebola.