Ebola detected in Uganda's capital city

[Kassy]

Published Date: 2012-11-23 19:32:02
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola virus disease - Uganda (29): (LO) WHO update
Archive Number: 20121123.1422071

EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - UGANDA (29): (LUWEERO) WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION UPDATE
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Date: Fri 23 Nov 2012

Source: World Health Organisation (WHO), CSR, Disease Outbreak News [edited]

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_11_2.../en/index.html





Ebola in Uganda


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As of 23 Nov 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Uganda has reported 10 cases (6 confirmed and 4 probable), including 5 deaths in Luweero and Kampala.



The last confirmed case was hospitalised on 17 Nov 2012. Close contacts of the Ebola cases are being identified and followed up for a period of 21 days. All the cases alerted to the field teams are being investigated.



The World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners, including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the Uganda Red Cross (URCS), African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) and Plan Uganda are supporting the national authorities in the investigation and response to the outbreak.



Experts in the area of field epidemiology, health promotion, logistics management, and infection prevention and control, have been mobilized by the WHO through the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), to provide support to the response.



With respect to this event, the WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restriction be applied to Uganda.



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[As of Sat 17 Nov 2012, the Ministry of Health of Uganda reported an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever [Ebola virus disease] in Luwero district in Central Uganda. 4 cases, including 3 fatal cases were reported. The number of cases has now risen to 10 (6 confirmed and 4 probable), and the number of deaths has increased from 3 to 5. Deaths have occurred in Kampala, the capital city, as well as in Luweero, the site of the outbreak.


Unlike the outbreak of Marburg virus disease occurring in the districts of Kabale, Ibanda, Mbarara, and Kampala. which appears to have been contained, the Ebola virus disease outbreak appears to be developing. The Marburg and Ebola outbreaks are occurring in geographically separate regions of the country. But an alarming aspect is that affected individuals in both cases have travelled to, or been taken to, Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.



The location of Luwero district can be found in the map of the districts of Uganda (no. 48, in the Central Region) at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Uganda. A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at

http://healthmap.org/r/45B0. - Mod.CP]

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[Auburn Boy]

Again?

[CanadaSue]

Again - it's a different pattern, isn't it?

Usually it roars in out of nowhere, tears through bodies & psyches for a time, (months), then disappears from whence it came. Now it seems to be squatting stubbornly...

[Kassy]

The Marburg outbreaklooks over & done with but soon after that ended (or when it was ending) there was another outbreak which is ongoing.

[Kassy]

The Ebola Congo outbreak is now officially over , leaving just the most recent outbreak of Sudan strain Ebola:



Published Date: 2012-11-27 15:08:54
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola virus disease - Congo DR (23): (OR)
Archive Number: 20121127.1426608

EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (23): (ORIENTALE)
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Date: Tue 27 Nov 2012

Source: The New Age (TNA), Agence France-Presse report [edited]

http://www.thenewage.co.za/71698-101...ended_minister





The latest outbreak of Ebola [virus disease] in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] has ended after claiming 34 lives, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said on Monday [26 Nov 2012]. According to revised figures, 62 people are believed to have been infected during the latest epidemic, which was declared in mid-August 2012 in the northeastern Orientale Province and which officially ended on Friday [23 Nov 2012, he said.



The Health Ministry, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control based in Atlanta, Georgia (CDC), Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), [and the USAID PREDICT project] have been working in close cooperation to combat the outbreak.



To date, no treatment or vaccine is available for Ebola virus disease, which kills between 25 and 90 percent of those who fall sick, depending on the strain of the virus, according to the WHO. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with blood, faeces, or sweat, or by sexual contact or unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.



The DRC has now recorded 8 outbreaks of Ebola virus disease, one of the world's most virulent diseases, since the virus was first reported near a river that gave the disease its name in 1976.



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[The WHO's most recent report on this outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the DRC reported that 52 cases and 25 deaths had occurred during the course of this outbreak, which is attributed to infection by the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus. The report above gives the final tally as 62 cases and 34 deaths.



Currently 2 other regions in Central Africa are afflicted by outbreaks of filovirus infection. An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (Sudan strain) is affecting the Luwero and Kampala districts of Uganda. 6 confirmed cases and 4 probable cases have been reported, and there have been 5 deaths.



An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in western Uganda as a result of Marburg disease virus infection has been responsible for at least nine fatalities. The outbreak has affected in 4 districts in southwestern Uganda (Kampala (the capital city), Ibanda, Mbarara, and Kabale). It appears that the outbreak is being successfully contained by the prompt response of the Ugandan Ministry of Health and its partners.



It would seem that currently in Central Africa conditions are right for the transmission of filovirus infections. Concurrently the ability of the local medical authorities and their international partners to respond to these events has improved significantly.



A map of the provinces of DRC is available at http://www.mapsofworld.com/democrati...tical-map.html. A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at http://healthmap.org/r/35-r. - Mod.CP]




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