Check out the FAQ,Terms of Service & Disclaimers by clicking the
link. Please register
to be able to post. By viewing this site you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Acknowledge our Disclaimers.
FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster.
The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website.
By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Uganda - Health officials monitoring twenty patients after presenting bird flu signs - Seasonal flu?
Uganda - Health officials monitoring twenty patients after presenting bird flu signs - Seasonal flu?
By Charles Kizindo Lule
Twenty patients in Bussi and Butembe islands on Lake Victoria are being monitored by health specialists after presenting symptoms of the deadly bird flu.
The ministry of health has picked samples from them and taken to Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe for further investigations.
Bird flu was confirmed in Uganda this week following a mass death of birds at Lutembe beach in Entebbe, and ducks in Masaka.
By Charles Kizindo Lule Twenty patients in Bussi and Butembe islands on Lake Victoria are being monitored by health specialists after presenting symptoms of the deadly bird flu. ?The ministry of health has picked samples from them and taken to Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe for further investigations. Bird flu was confirmed in Uganda
?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet
Ministry of health says 20 people suspected of having bird flu are under surveillance
Officials at the ministry of health say their blood samples have been taken for tests to ascertain whether they have contracted the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu.
The ministry of the health says at least 20 people at Lutembe bay in Entebbe and Busi island in Wakiso district have been put under surveillance after being suspected of contracting avian Influenza, commonly known as bird flu.
Officials at the ministry of health say their blood samples have been taken for tests to ascertain whether they have contracted the H5N1 virus.
Officials at the ministry of health say their blood samples have been taken for tests to ascertain whether they have contracted the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu.
?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet
Contrary to social media reports, the Ministry of Health confirms that no one has tested positive for the Avian flu popularly referred to as bird flu since the outbreak. Ministry of Health Publicist Vivian Sserwanja says the situation is under control especially in the three districts of Kalangala, Masaka and Wakiso where birds tested positive.
Contrary to social media reports, the Ministry of Health confirms that no one has tested positive for the Avian flu popularly referred to as bird flu since the
?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet
Ugandans free from bird flu - Gov't
By Gerald Tenywa
Added 23rd January 2017 09:34 AM
Uganda does not have any human victims or suspects of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, according to Dr Anthony Mbonye, the director of health service (clinical and community health) at the health ministry.
?We do not have any human cases of bird flu,? Mbonye told New Vision and described the 20 suspected cases among the fi shermen at Lutembe landing site and on Bussi Island in Wakiso as a false alarm.
?We sent a team to Lutembe and Bussi and discovered that what was being referred to as suspected cases were alarmist.?...
...The Government responded by testing samples from the dead birds and water in parts of Lutembe Bay...
...contrary to reports from Mbonye that the wild birds at Lutembe had stopped dying, Katende said they continue to die...
...Background
The Government last week confirmed the outbreak of bird flu on some parts of Lake Victoria shores.
The cases of death of wild birds, the white-winged black terns at Lutembe Bay that had persisted for about two weeks, were first reported to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries on January 2.
On January 13, another report came from Masaka where domestic ducks and chicken had died at Kachanga village in Bukibanga parish and Bukakata sub-county.
The carcasses were delivered to the National Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Entebbe. It was later confirmed that the deaths were due to bird flu...
Comment