A jail official said on Tuesday that a case of mpox had been discovered in the Nakasongola jail in northern Uganda, adding that the victim had been taken care of and had been isolated.
In August, the outbreak of the viral infections in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which has spread to Burundi, Uganda, and Rwanda, led to the World Health Organization declaring mpox a global public health crisis for the next time in two decades.
The disease outbreak at one of Uganda’s packed prison might cause health officials to be of great concern.
Mpox is spread through close call. Often minor, it is dangerous in exceptional cases. It generally results in pus-filled tumors on the body and symptoms similar to the flu.
” Unfortunately the prisoner could n’t be given bail since he’s being held for murder”, said Frank Baine, a spokesperson for the Uganda Prison Service. ” We suspect he came in with it but that’s being investigated”.
Baine predicted that the prison had depended on the protocols and systems put in place to stop the Covid-19 pandemic from spreading.
The latest figures released last month showed Uganda’s mpox case weight had risen to 41, according to a health official quoted by the Daily Monitor, Uganda’s biggest independent newspaper.
Emmanuel Ainebyoona, a spokesman for the health ministry, said he would revise the public on the outbreak after on Tuesday.
The health ministry announced in September that it had received 2, 000 mpox vaccinations from Africa CDC to fight the pandemic, but it has not yet indicated whether it has started carrying out treatments.
On Saturday, Congolese health authorities launched their second mpox vaccination strategy.
Uganda is also on great notice if an outbreak in neighboring Rwanda results in the highly contagious Marburg virus spreading across the country.
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