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[b]Uganda must again deal with an outbreak of Ebola
| 11/19/2012 at 12:17[/b]
A month and a half ago after the last outbreak that has killed 17 people in western countries, the Uganda is again struck by the Ebola virus. The health minister, Christine Ondoa, announced Saturday, November 17, the identification of four cases, including three deaths. This disease caused by a virus results in a sudden rise in temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney and liver failure and bleeding. The mortality rate can reach 90%.
The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda border. No treatment and no vaccine exists to this day. The DRC is itself a focus of epidemic in the region of Kisangani. The end of October last bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 52 cases.
[b]In Uganda, it has deployed personnel, as Doctors Without Borders also to investigate the epidemic alongside the Ugandan Ministry of Health. A special unit of isolation at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, and another Nyimbwa where is the epicenter of the epidemic, were activated to be able to accommodate in terms of security people who approached sick. Five people have been in contact with the deceased were placed under medical supervision.[/b]
 
[b]CAREGIVERS OFTEN BEEN CONTAMINATED[/b]
The Ebola virus is transmitted by direct conta

http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2012/11/19/l-ouganda-fait-face-a-une-nouvelle-epidemie-de-fievre-ebola_1792578_1651302.html?
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Original Message ..A further 11 suspected patients, including two children, are being treated, while 40 villagers are being monitored after coming into contact with the dead or hospitalised.
The first victims were a 29-year-old, father-of-three motorcycle taxi rider, his wife and 40-year-old sister.
About 44,000 villagers are deemed to be at risk from the disease in a poor and remote farming region.
“After two days of admission with no improvement at a community health centre, the motor bicycle taxi rider was transferred to a military hospital,” says Plan’s Country Health Specialist Dr Kenneth Buyinza.
“He had high grade fever, bloody diarrho... [link to swineflumagazine.blogspot.com]

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