The virus Ebolawhose outbreak was recorded this month in Uganda, has killed four people in the country, Archyde.com reports, relaying comments from the Ministry of Health. The number of confirmed deaths from the Ebola virus stands at four as of today, the agency says. For its part, the Ugandan site ChimpReportswhich also refers to the Ministry of Health, says that the cumulative number of confirmed cases rises to eleven following three new deaths “since yesterday“. “These include those confirmed and those suspected of being Ebola“, adds the site.
Ugandan authorities announced an outbreak of the disease on September 20, when the virus was detected in a deceased man who was 24 and lived in the central part of the country. The Ugandan newspaper Monitor reports that medical authorities have identified 43 cases of contact with the victim, all of whom remain under surveillance. The last Ebola epidemic in Uganda dates back to 2000. It killed several hundred people.
The Tanzania and the Kenya, neighbors of Uganda, have already taken additional health control measures at their borders to prevent the spread of the virus. The World Health Organization (OMS) announced that the current outbreak in Uganda was caused by a strain “relatively rare“, said Sudanese. “Mortality rates for the Sudanese strain have ranged from 41% to 100% in past outbreaks“, explained the WHO. The Sudanese strain has been the source of seven epidemics, four in Uganda and three at Sudan. The disease has six different strains.
The Ebola virus is transmitted to humans by infected animals. The main symptoms are fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea. This is followed by kidney and liver damage with, sometimes, internal and external bleeding. The Ebola virus disease appeared in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The largest outbreak in the number of infected people dates back to 2014-2016 in West Africa: in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It had caused more than 11,000 deaths. (Tasse)
