Uganda Confirms Ebola Outbreak
Category: Africa News
An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities
confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the government and the
World Health Organization (WHO) said.
“We want to inform the country that we have an outbreak of Ebola, which
we confirmed yesterday,” Diana Atwine, the health ministry’s permanent
secretary, told a news conference on Tuesday.
The patient with the confirmed case, a 24-year-old man in Uganda’s
central Mubende district, showed symptoms and later died.
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Atwine said the man had a high fever, diarrhea and abdominal pains and
was vomiting blood. He had initially been treated for malaria.
There are currently eight suspected cases receiving care in a health
facility, the WHO’s Africa office said in a statement, adding that it was
helping Uganda’s health authorities with their investigation and deploying
staff to the affected area.
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