EBOLA Out-of-Control Outbreak in Africa. Fed Halts Vaccine R&D. Agenda 21?

Same area as this 07 outbreak

Thread: Ebola in Uganda Kills 20 People, Including Two Medics

She traveled on public transport possibly? Now that is really scary.

And you know this how? Do you work with any of the scientists at Detrick in the BSL 4 labs? Were you privy to the testing and creation? No? STFU then. Disinfo is bad mmmkay.

Ebola and Anthrax are two VERY different monsters.

This is BIG news; there is no cure for Ebola AND the symptoms do not surface for weeks in some cases...the united states should immediately ban any flights/connections from Uganda and Kenya...NOW....if the disease made it to the states it would spread exponentially....

Wrong. The dead infected bodies of victims are just as infectious.

what about London? the olympics? could spread there right?

That's what I'm saying, too. Ban all flights to and from Uganda.

Shit, I'm much nearer to Uganda than you!!

Have you guys ever had any cases in South Africa?

I thought she'd been flown into Kampala, well that's what they said yesterday.

Been following this for a few days. I read this is a known strain which is less severe and can be non lethal if treated early. The symptoms have been atypical in this outbreak delaying diagnosis as Ebola initially.

True. 100% correct. I should have said all countries...sorry.

The World Health Organisation(WHO) does not recommend any restrictions on travel to or trade with Uganda [link to www.newvision.co.ug]

I don't think Ebola, but definitely other haemorraghic fevers, which are just as contagious and deadly. They're usually flown in from the affected areas elsewhere in Africa, because our hospitals are far superior in dealing with these kind of infections.

yes. Not quite as deadly as ebola Zaire, but kills pretty good, with no ebola type symptoms for a while. At my blog are a lot of reports, i am pretty busy. Trying to get those that arent here already posted to this thread or my other one.

Schools close over Ebola outbreak
Publish Date: Jul 30, 2012



By Vision team
A number of schools in Buyaga County have been closed following the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Kibale district.
The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Kibaale District, over 200km west of Kampala.

The incurable disease, caused by a virus, has killed at least 13 people in Nyanswiga Village in Nyamarunda sub-county since it broke out three weeks ago. The affected families initially thought it was either witchcraft or evil spirits. As a result they took the first patients to Owobusubozi Bisaka’s shrine for prayers. Bisaka is the leader of a religious sect called Faith of Unity. Two patients died in that shrine.

The disease presents with high fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and blood oozing from the mouth and nose at the time of death.

“Laboratory investigations carried out at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe have confirmed that the strange disease which has been reported for some time in Kibaale is indeed an Ebola variety,” Dr. Denis Lwamafa, acting director general of health services, told the press at the ministry headquarters.
Following confirmation of Ebola, health workers in Kibaale have taken over management of burials.
At Kagadi Hospital, an isolation
ward was set up, where relatives are not allowed to attend to their patients for fear that they might contract the disease...
[link to www.newvision.co.ug]

In statement released this afternoon, the President also revealed that all the seven doctors that dealt with the Ebola patient who died in Mulago days ago, have been quarantined.

More other 13 health workers in Mulago, who were accompanying them, have also been quarantined, to avoid a likely spread of the diseases just in case they got infected.

Ebola Reported In Kampala As Medic Dies In Mulago


By Nicholas Mwesigwa:
A clinical officer who attended to suspected Ebola patients at Kagadi Hospital has died in Mulago Hospital after being referred there.
Sources identified the clinical officer as Clare Muhumuza who died on the evening of Friday within a few hours of being admitted. Muhumuza’s four month old baby, Milca Ninsima, is also reported to have died.“The clinical officer died in Mulago. The disease is contagious like you know so we urge people to be cautious and if one develops any signs please rush to the hospital,” Ondoa said on phone. Doctors at Mulago however couldn’t comment when contacted citing sensitivity of the matter...

[link to redpepper.co.ug]

I hope it wipes that whole shitty continent out

Ebola: Uganda Red Cross dispatches emergency team

Publish Date: Jul 30, 2012





By Online Reporter

The Uganda Red Cross Society has mobilised an emergency health team of 100 volunteers to support the Ministry of Health and partners to combat the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Kibaale district.

Already, the Red Cross has dispatched Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Kibaale to support the case management team and URCS volunteers with their work on ground as they also protect themselves against the fever.

URCS is working closely with Ministry of Health and other agencies like WHO, MSF, UNICEF and AFINET who are part of the national task force on Ebola...

Over 100 volunteers were undergoing training to support the dissemination of information about the disease and its transmission to the vulnerable communities. A senior staff and regional manager have moved to Kibaale to support in the training, a statement issued by Uganda Red Cross Society spokesperson Catherine Ntabadde stated.

community education and sensitization.

To boost its operations, URCS will receive support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to provide immediate assistance to about 1.6m indirect beneficiaries through community sensitization and community disease surveillance. [link to www.newvision.co.ug]

..THE WORLD Health Organisation believes that it is not necessary to have travel or trade bans slapped on Uganda following the deadly Ebola outbreak.

“WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions are applied to Uganda,” reads partly a statement on the WHO website.

This is contained in a Global Alert and Response statement which was released yesterday by the global health body.

“The Ministry of Health of Uganda has notified WHO of an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Kibaale district in the western part of the country,” adds the statement.

The health ministry is working with stakeholders and partners to control the outbreak. “Response plans at the national and district levels are being finalised. A national task force coordinated by the health ministry has been re-activated at the headquarters and holds daily meetings,” adds the statement...
[link to www.newvision.co.ug]

Btw Ebola did not get is name from a small river in DR congo!

it got it's name from the epidemic in 1976-1978 (wikipedia is changing dates. i swear they were higher then this, 1983-1984) near the small river near the center of Zaire in Egypt. Which is named Ebola.

Any Olympians from Uganda? If so this could get scary fast.

Please pin this again!!

REAL DOOM!

[link to www.capitalfm.co.ke]

"Two cases have since been reported in the capital, with one victim reported dead in Kampala’s Mulago Hospital"

Ooops! I'm retarded...it IS pinned. Sowwy!

19 dead

Ebola Virus Hits Kampala



on July 30, 2012







Ebola virus outbreak has been reported in Kampala for the first time, with two cases reported and one person confirmed dead.


The victim reportedly died at Mulago Hospital.

This brings the death toll to 19 of which 18 were reported in Kibaale district where the out break first hit last week.

...Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago hospital are in quarantine after “at least one or two cases” were taken there, with one later dying from the virus.

...


An isolation ward has been established Kagadi hospital to avoid spread of the disease.

[link to www.ugandapicks.com]

^^^THIS^^^

President of Uganda - Museveni speaks out on Ebola

The doctors in Kibaale say the symptoms were a bit atypical of Ebola.

They were not clearly like Ebola symptoms.

Because of that delay, the sickness spread to another village called Kibaari and to another village called Kisindiizi.

The starting point was Nyanswiga. When people died those who came to bury them also got sick.

They are the ones who transferred the sickness from Nyanswiga, Kibaari, Kisindiizi, Kagadi hospital and eventually Mulago Hospital.

[link to www.newvision.co.ug]

6 more Ugandans admitted with possible Ebola


RODNEY MUHUMUZA

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital days after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious disease in a remote corner of western Uganda, a health official said on Monday.

Stephen Byaruhanga, health secretary of the affected Kibaale district, said possible cases of Ebola, at first concentrated in a single village, are now being reported in more villages.

"It's no longer just one village. There are many villages affected," Byaruhanga said.



[link to m.apnews.com]