KAMPALA: A rn in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded accident since the last pandemic ended in 2023.
The 32-year-old man caregiver was an employee of Mulago Hospital, the key referral hospital in the capital, Kampala, Diana Atwine, continuous director of the health department, told reporters Thursday.
Before several laboratory tests revealed that he had contracted Ebola, he was treated at various locations in Uganda before receiving a temperature. The person died on Wednesday, and postmortem checks revealed the Sudan pressure of Ebola, according to Atwine.
At least 44 links of the victim have been identified, including 30 wellness workers and patients at Mulago Hospital, according to Uganda’s ministry of health.
The health officials are “in full control of the situation”, Atwine said, urging Ugandans to report suspected situations.
There are no approved vaccinations for the Sudanese burden of Ebola, and tracking connections is essential to halt the spread of it.
Uganda’s next pandemic, discovered in September 2022, killed at least 55 people before it was declared over in January 2023.
The confirmation of Ebola in Uganda is the most recent example of an outbreak of popular hemorrhagic fever in the west African region. Rwanda announced that its own Marburg disease pandemic was over earlier this month, while Tanzania earlier this month declared an epidemic of the Ebola-like illness. At least two people have died as a result of the continuous Marburg outbreak in northern Tanzania’s Kagera area, according to local health authorities.
Ebola is a dangerous hemorrhagic fever that can be spread by coming into contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle soreness and at times internal and external bruising.
Although scientists are unsure of the source of Ebola, they believe the first victim of the outbreak was the first to come into contact with an infected animal or consume its fresh meat. Officials in Uganda are also looking into the origin of the latest outbreak.
Uganda has had many Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed thousands. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11, 000 persons, the virus’s largest death toll.
Ebola was discovered in a village close to the Ebola River in 1976 after two parallel outbreaks in South Sudan and the Congo, where it was named.
