According to information given by international media, at the end of September, Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak after a case was confirmed that unfortunately lost the life and the existence of several suspects.
For his part, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that even as the Ugandan government is making a great effort to contain the virus, the increase in cases in cities is worrying.
It should be noted that in just one month dozens of probable cases were confirmed. However, as of October 26, the WHO tracked 115 confirmed cases, 21 probable cases, 32 confirmed deaths, and 15 cases with four deaths among healthcare workers. The city that has been most affected so far is Mubende, which has reported 54.7 percent of all cases.
This situation can be very dangerous, since the outbreak is a strain of the virus that comes from Sudan and the vaccines that have been used to stop Ebola outbreaks, for example, in the Congo, are not effective against it.
The Ugandan government has put in place various measures to contain it. However, the WHO believes that it will need extra help to prevent the outbreak from getting out of control inside and outside the country. President Yoweri Museveni is understood to have ordered a three-week lockdown in two districts that have multiple positive cases due to the high risk of spread.
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is generally fatal and five different strains have been detected, including the one from Sudan. It seems that, again, the natural hosts of this type of virus are fruit bats and it is spread to humans through contact with organs, blood, secretions or other body fluids of infected animals.
From person to person it is transmitted by direct contact, such as mucous membranes, organs, blood, secretions, etc. Symptoms are fever, severe weakness, muscle aches, headache and throat pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, skin rashes, kidney and liver dysfunction. Also, in more serious situations, there are internal and external hemorrhages.
Source: Okchicas
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