The confirmed cases in the ebola outbreak declared in Uganda last Tuesday, September 20, they increased to fifteen, including four deaths, the country’s health authorities reported this Saturday.
Dr. Kyobe Henry Bbosa, incident commander of ebola of the Ministry of Health of Uganda, told Efe today that three new deaths from this disease have been confirmed since last Thursday.
Likewise19 deaths probably related to this virus have been recorded since the beginning of the outbreak but pending confirmation, according to a statement released this Saturday by the Ministry.
On the other hand, so far, 58 contacts have been identified and are being tracked by the authorities.
Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak on Tuesday after confirming a case in the Mubende district (center), where a 24-year-old man died of the disease caused by the virus.
The Ugandan authorities confirmed the case, corresponding to the unusual strain from Sudanafter analyzing a sample taken from the man and following an investigation of six suspicious deaths that occurred in the district this month.
There have been seven previous outbreaks of the Ebola strain from Sudan, four in Uganda and three in Sudan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Uganda last reported an Ebola outbreak of this strain in 2012, for which there is no approved vaccine, unlike the Zaire strain, recorded in epidemics of the disease in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
In 2019, Uganda experienced an outbreak of the Zairean strain in which the virus was imported from the DRC, which was then battling a large epidemic in its northeastern region.
There are differences between the two strains.: the one from Sudan is not only less transmissible, but also has a lower mortality (between 40% and 100%) than the one from Zaire (70% – 100%).
Countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Somalia are on alert to prevent a possible spread of the virus.
Discovered in 1976 in the DRC – then called Zaire – Ebola is a serious, often fatal disease that affects humans and other primates and is transmitted by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected people or animals.
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This fever causes severe bleeding and its first symptoms are sudden and high fever, severe weakness and muscle, head and throat pain, as well as vomiting.
It has six different strains, three of which (Bundibugyo, Sudan and Zaire) have previously caused major epidemics, such as the one that hit West Africa from 2014 to 2016, when 11,300 people died and there were more than 28,500 cases.
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