By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-31 03:27:38 | Updated at 2025-01-31 06:03:23
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Uganda confirms outbreak of Ebola in capital Kampala, one dead
Reuters ^ | 1-30-25 | Elias Biryabarema
Posted on 01/30/2025 7:18:48 PM PST by dynachrome
Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000. The patient, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, had initially sought treatment at various facilities, including Mulago, as well as with a traditional healer, after developing fever-like symptoms. "The patient experienced multi-organ failure and succumbed to the illness at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Jan. 29. Post-mortem samples confirmed the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (strain)," the ministry said in a statement. Forty-four contacts of the deceased man have been listed for tracing, including 30 health workers, the ministry said. However, contact tracing could be challenging as Kampala, where the latest Ebola infection cropped up, is a crowded city of over 4 million people and a crossroads for traffic to South Sudan, Congo, Rwanda and other countries.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; uganda
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Does Gates or Fauci have any labs over there?
1 posted on 01/30/2025 7:18:48 PM PST by dynachrome
To: dynachrome
Oh, noooeee….. we’re ALL gonna die….AGAIN!
2 posted on 01/30/2025 7:19:35 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: dynachrome
3 posted on 01/30/2025 7:21:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dynachrome
Bet the rent, Trump won’t be importing the infected here.
Like the other lunatics...
4 posted on 01/30/2025 7:23:52 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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