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Authors
Rübsamen, NicoleCastell, Stefanie
Horn, Johannes
Karch, André
Ott, Jördis J
Raupach-Rosin, Heike
Zoch, Beate
Krause, Gerard

Mikolajczyk, Rafael T

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2015-06
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks have occurred during the past 5 decades, but none has affected European countries like the 2014 epidemic in West Africa. We used an online questionnaire to investigate risk perceptions in Germany during this epidemic peak. Our questionnaire covered risk perceptions, knowledge about transmission routes, media use, reactions to the outbreak, attitudes toward measures to prevent the spread of EVD and vaccination against EVD, and willingness to volunteer for aid missions. Of 974 participants, 29% indicated that they worried about EVD, 4% correctly stated virus transmission routes, and 75% incorrectly rated airborne transmission and transmission by asymptomatic patients as possible. Many indicated that if a patient were flown to Germany for treatment in a nearby hospital, they would adapt preventive behavior. Although most participants were not worried about EVD at the current stage of the epidemic, misperceptions regarding transmission were common and could trigger inappropriate behavior changes.Citation
Ebola risk perception in Germany, 2014. 2015, 21 (6):1012-8 Emerging Infect. Dis.Affiliation
Helmholtz Centre for infection research, Inhoffenstr. 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany.Journal
Emerging infectious diseasesPubMed ID
25989020Type
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1080-6059ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3201/eid2106.150013
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