Uganda officials confirmed the outbreak of Ebola in the capital of Campara on Thursday, and it was confirmed that one has died so far.
This is the ninth Ebola that Uganda has been suffering since Uganda was first detected in 2000. Previous outbreak 55 people died in 2022 for four months.
Ministry of Uganda Health I said The deadly infected patient was a male nurse who worked at the Murago National Introduction Hospital in Campara. He died on Wednesday for “multiolgan disorder” at the hospital.
The ministry reported that both modern facilities and traditional healers were asked for treatment and were worried that they could potentially spread what they believed to be stubborn.
44 people who came into contact with the patient so far Specified For tracing of contacts including 30 medical professionals and patients at Murago Hospital. Campara is a dense city and has a large amount of traffic across the borders to nearby African countries, so it is difficult to track everyone who may have been infected.
According to the Uganda Health, one of the venues that the deceased patient demanded for treatment was a public hospital near the border with Kenya.
The ministry said that it would immediately start vaccination programs, but the patient seemed to have suffered from Ebola's Sudan shares, which was officially known as SUDV, which was involved in the occurrence of 2022. Be There is no official vaccine In the case of the current Sudan shares, three candidate vaccines were tested in the second stage of 2022.
Ebola is bleeding heat Symptoms Include fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat at an early or “drying” stage. Later, this disease causes vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and internal bleeding during the “wet” stage.
Patients may die due to organs, brain inflammation, and decrease in blood flow. Ebola is mainly expanded by contact with the infected individual fluid, but it is thought that contact with infected animals and eat meat can also cause infection. In modern treatment, there is a lethal rate from Ebola cans. range 25 % to 90 %, depending on the strain that involves involved and the treatment available.
Diana Atowein, Secretary of Health, Uganda Health guarantee Thursday reporters said the authorities “completely controlled the situation.”
World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom GHEBREYESIS I said On Thursday, the Uganda government and his partner began “full -scale response” for Ebola.
“People who are supporting the government through our country's office and emergency programs. We have made an initial assignment of $ 1 million from an emergency fund for emergency,” he said. 。
