The Ministry of Health said Thursday that Uganda confirmed the spread of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with a previously confirmed patient on Wednesday.
It is the ninth outbreak of the East African country as it recorded its first infection of viral disease in 2000.
The patient, a male nurse at the Mollago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, had initially sought treatment with various facilities, including Mollago, as well as traditional healing.
The ministry said in a statement, “The patient suffered multi -organ failure and on January 29, the disease suffered from the Mulgo National Referral Hospital. Post -mortem samples confirmed the Sudan Ebola virus disease (tension). “”
Forty contacts with the dead person have been registered for tracing, including 30 health workers, the ministry said.
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However, contacting contact can be a challenge because Kampala, where the latest Ebola infection has been developed, is a crowded city of more than 4 million people and is a confluence for traffic to South Sudan, Congo, Rwanda and other countries. –
Extremely infectious hemorrhoids are transmitted through contact with physical fluids and tissues affected by fever. Symptoms include headache, blood vomiting, muscle aches and bleeding.
Uganda officials have used the capabilities built over the years to control the recent spread of Ebola in a relatively short layout, such as laboratory testing, how to learn about patient care, contact contact and contact Other skills.
The World Health Organization said it had allocated 1 million from its emergency fund for an emergency fund to support immediate action to control the outbreak.
He said in a statement that the World Health Organization was also working with the developers to send candidates vaccines.
Uganda last suffered a spread at the end of 2022, killing 55 of the 143 people. The outbreak was announced on January 11, 2023.
The ministry said vaccination for all the deadly contacts against Ebola will begin immediately. There is currently no approved vaccine for Ebola's Sudan tension, though Uganda has received some test vaccine doses during the last outbreak.
Ebola's cousin Marburg's outbreak was declared in neighboring Tanzania last week. Uganda is also connected to Rwanda, which has just emerged from the outbreak of Marburg, and the Congo where the spread of Ebola is common.