Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 9, hundreds under the quarantine

Kampala, Uganda – Health authorities said on Tuesday that the Ebola cases in Uganda had increased to nine, while 265 other people were monitored under the quarantine.

The first nine victim, a male nurse who died the day before the disease on January 30. This man is still the only death.

A statement by the Ministry of Health said that eight patients receive medical care while they are in a stable condition.

The nurse, who died, had first requested treatment in Kampala and later traveled to MBALE, where he was admitted to a general hospital. The health authorities said that the man also sought the services of the traditional processor. His relatives are among those treated in Ebola.

Kampala population is about 4 million residents, and officials are still investigating an outbreak.

Connecting tracking is the key to the spread of Ebola, which is manifested in viral hemorrhagic fever.

There are no approved vaccines for Sudan’s dynasty in Ebola that afflict people in Uganda. However, the authorities launched a clinical study to increase the testing and effectiveness of the experiment vaccine as part of measures to stop the spread of the current.

The outbreak of the recent Ebola in Uganda, which began in September 2022, killed at least 55 people by the time when it was announced more than four months later.

Ebola is spread by touching the physical fluid of the affected person or polluted materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and sometimes internal and external bleeding.

Scientists suspect that the first person with the Ebola virus spreads the virus by touching an infected animal or eating raw meat. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in southern Sudan and the Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola, after which the disease was named.