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**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 10:55 AM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-18 deaths including Healthcare worker in Kibaale out of 36 total suspected cases, 4 confirmed

Breaking: 12 More Ebola Cases In Kagadi, 232 ?Closely Monitored?

The Ministry of Health has Thursday evening announced that 12 new Ebola cases were yesterday admitted at Kagadi Government Hospital, confirming the virus is spreading rapidly and health experts could take more time than anticipated to stop it from killing Ugandans.
This brings the total number of admissions to 30 since the onset of the outbreak that started in Nyanswiga LCI in Nyamarunda Parish of Nyamarunda sub-county, Kibaale district in July.

The death toll remains at 16 as no new deaths have been reported since July 31.
?Among the admissions, two patients have been confirmed to have the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever while the rest are still suspects. The patients are receiving the appropriate treatment from the medical expert team consisting of officials from the Mulago National Referral Hospital, World Health Organization and U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention,? said Dr K Lwamafa, the Director General of Health Services.

?A total of seven more specimens were yesterday August 1st picked from the patients admitted at the isolation facility bringing the total number of samples collected since the outbreak to 37,? he further stated.
The samples are currently being investigated at the Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe.

He added a sample that was picked from a patient in Mbarara district tested negative, confirming that the person could have been suffering from another ailment.
?The Ministry of Health Surveillance team in Kibaale district is actively and closely following up to 232 people suspected to have got into contact with the dead and sick. These contacts have not shown any signs of the disease but continue to be monitored,? he further noted.
This implies a rise of suspected Ebola cases from yesterday?s 176.
In the meantime, Chimpreports.com has learnt that a suspected case of Ebola had been reported at Ibanda hospital, stoking tension that the western region could lose more lives to the deadly disease.

Lwamafa also revealed that an inter-ministerial committee on Ebola has been formed to coordinate the management of the epidemic.
The committee includes officials from the ministries of; Office of the Prime Minister; Tourism; Internal Affairs; Finance, Planning and Economic Development; and Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries.

?The Ministry of Health continues to urge the public to avoid unnecessary movements and gatherings especially in Kibaale and neighboring districts,? Lwamafa cautioned.
?The Ministry of Health response teams in Kampala are on the alert to respond to any suspect cases in and around Kampala. The Ministry of Health urges the public to be vigilant but not to create unnecessary fear and panic. All measures are being undertaken to control the spread of the contagious disease,? he concluded.

http://www.chimpreports.com/index.ph...onitored?.html

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 10:59 AM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-18 deaths including Healthcare worker in Kibaale out of 36 total suspected cases, 4 confirmed

Suspected Ebola cases rise by 50
The number of suspected Ebola patients in Kibaale district has risen by 50, according to health officials in the district.
?The total number of people believed to have got into contact with Ebola patients has increased to 232, and they have all been followed? Dr Dan Kyamanywa, the Kibaale District Health Officer told the Daily Monitor this Thursday.

He said 31 patients are on admission at an isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital.

The District Ebola Taskforce vice chairperson, Mr Stephen Mfashingabo, said samples had been collected from 37 suspected patients and had been sent to the Uganda Virus Institute for analysis

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Nation...b/-/index.html

**sharon sanders** · August 2, 2012, 11:09 AM

Originally posted by Treyfish View Post

?The total number of people believed to have got into contact with Ebola patients has increased to 232, and they have all been followed? Dr Dan Kyamanywa, the Kibaale District Health Officer told the Daily Monitor this Thursday.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Nation...b/-/index.html

232 is just the number of people being monitored in the Kibaale District in Uganda. At this point I am going to remove the suspected number from the title of the thread since it is unclear how many are actually suspected ebola cases and how many are being simply monitored in the entire country of Uganda (not individual districts).

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 11:15 AM

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Ebola outbreak suspected among Uganda prisoners

From David McKenzie, CNN
updated 12:08 PM EDT, Thu August 2, 2012
VIDEO
Kigadi, Uganda (CNN) -- The hospital at the center of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now dealing with 30 suspected cases, including five from Kibaale prison, Dr. Dan Kyamanywa said Thursday.
Three patients at Kagadi hospital have been confirmed as having the virus, said Kyamanywa, a district health officer.
Doctors are now testing the suspected cases urgently so they can separate confirmed cases from those who do not have the disease, Doctors Without Borders said.
Suspected cases are still trickling into the hospital, Kyamanywa said.
At least 16 people have died in the current outbreak.

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The five prisoners have been showing Ebola-like symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea and fever, the doctor said.

"We do expect the number of suspected cases to increase," he said. "It's important to break transmission and reduce the number of contacts that suspected cases have."
There is a fear that the outbreak will spread to the capital, but it is unlikely, he said.
Many patients fled Kagadi hospital when Ebola was confirmed, he said, and the hospital is struggling to respond to all the call-outs to suspected..

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/health...a-ebola-virus/

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 11:33 AM

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Kenya: Border Screening for Ebola Faces Major Challenges

2 August 2012

THE 24-hour screening of travellers from Uganda at the Malaba border frontier office for Ebola is being hampered by language barrier.
Public health officer Charles Magomere said most travellers from DR Congo and Ethiopia cannot communicate in either English or Kiswahili.
Magomere said lack of French or Arabic translators is a major impediment in their efforts to communicate with them.
Senior immigrations officer, Wilfred Chepkole said tough measures have been put in place to ensure that the country is free from the deadly Ebola.
Chepkole said they are only carrying visual screening by looking out for the signs and symptoms of Ebola.
Border residents have expressed fears that they are seating on a time bomb since no adequate measures have been put in place should one visitor test positive for Ebola.
They said Public Health personnel have not been equipped with protective gear yet they come into direct contact with travellers.
More than 300 people have been screened since July 28.
However, lack of personnel at the frontier office is slowing down the exercise.
Only three PHOs have been deployed in shifts to screen travellers.
The three can barely manage the large number of people coming in through the border.
Medical Officer of Health Dr Melisa Lutomia said the number of medical staff has been increased to enable them operate in both day and night shifts.
"We do not want to take chances as Ebola is a deadly disease. The frontier office must therefore enhance screening of travellers entering Kenya," Lutomia said.
She added that all health facilities in the district have been put on high alert and advised to be highly suspicious in cases where patients display signs and symptoms similar to those of Ebola.
Lutomia said they will teach health care workers and the community the signs and symptoms of Ebola.
She said this will enable them report any suspicious case on time.
She the public to avoid shaking hands and handling other people's blood and bodily fluids

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**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 11:50 AM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-25? deaths, 232+ contacts being monitored

UGANDA: Containment worries as Ebola numbers rise
KAMPALA, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - Health officials in Uganda's western Kibaale District are struggling to deal with an outbreak of Ebola, as the number of suspected cases stretches local health systems.

The Ugandan government has so far reported 16 suspected Ebola deaths; four have been confirmed by testing carried out at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe. The Ministry reports another 22 suspected cases, all in Kibaale District.

According to the Kibaale District Ebola Taskforce (KDET), reports of possible Ebola cases in the west continue to rise: health officials reported that they were following up on 176 people thought to have been in contact with infected patients on 31 July, up from 40 suspected contacts the day before. The disease is transmitted through direct contact with an infected person or their body fluids such as blood and sweat.

Meanwhile, a shortage of trained health workers has affected containment efforts; just 56 percent of health worker positions in the country's public health sector are filled.

Burials in the affected communities have been taken over by KDET, whom the ministry has supplied with vehicles, though there have been delays in providing them with fuel. The ministry has also set up a telephone hotline for citizens to report suspected cases.

Though these efforts have been boosted by the Uganda Red Cross, M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF), the US Centres for Disease Control, the UN World Health Organization and others, KDET chairperson Steven Byaruhanga said suspected cases are quickly outpacing relief efforts.

"At sub-county health centres, we are getting reports that they are shying away from handling patients because they don't have protective gear," he said.

According to Byaruhanga, the district is asking for the equivalent of US$334,000 to upgrade Kagadi Hospital - the centre of the outbreak - to increase awareness messages and to support traumatized health workers.

"Some of them are demoralized, others are stigmatized because their colleague has passed away," he said. "They need at least some motivation."

Dilapidated

Byaruhanga said the facility was already dilapidated when the outbreak began, citing an irregular water supply and electricity, a broken sewer system and no medical incinerator.

Local media reports this week said patients at the hospital had protested about the lack of food and water, and wanted to leave.

The Ministry of Health is requesting emergency supplies from the Prime Minister?s Office - responsible for disaster preparedness - as well as support from developing partners such as MSF, who are helping to build isolation centres.

On top of that, the ministry has access to a 2.5 billion Uganda shilling ($1 million) reserve fund for emergencies, according to its permanent secretary, Asuman Lukwago. "We can frontload that money and use it early," Lukwago said.

The outbreak was reported by the government on 28 July, but the first case is thought to have appeared weeks earlier.

The death of a clinical officer from Kagadi in Kibaale District who was taken to Mulago Hospital in the capital, Kampala, sparked fears of an outbreak in the city, but health officials say seven health workers being held in isolation at the hospital have not shown any symptoms, 11 days after their potential exposure. By 1 August, no further cases had been reported in the capital.

Delayed response

The nearly month-long delay in identifying the current outbreak was in part due to the spiritual beliefs of the community. According to Byaruhanga, the virus wiped out nine members of one family, who believed they were "cursed". He added that the delay also erased any real hope of tracing the source of infection.

"It blindfolded other research that would have taken place," he said.

The UN World Health Organization has identified the strain in Kibaale as Ebola-Sudan, the same strain responsible for some 425 infections and 224 deaths in Uganda in 2000-2001 and one death in 2011; another strain, Ebola-Bundibugyo - named after a western Ugandan district - killed some 42 people in the country in 2007-2008.

Byaruhanga also said health officials did not recognize the Sudan strain, which can achieve a 70 percent fatality rate, as it presented differently from the previous Bundibugyo strain, with a 30-40 percent fatality rate; patients presented with fever and vomiting rather than the more typical haemorrhaging usually associated with Ebola.

"We thought it was a strange disease because the symptoms first of all were not like the previous Ebola - that's why people were not cautious about it," he said.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96010...a-numbers-rise

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 11:55 AM

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SOUTH SUDAN: Preparing for Ebola - or not

JUBA, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - South Sudan is worried about the spread of Ebola, an incurable disease which has killed 16 people in neighbouring Uganda over the past few days.

?The Ministry of Health of the Republic of South Sudan in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) would like to caution the general public to be vigilant following reports of an Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in the Kibaale area of mid-western Uganda,? a government/WHO statement said this week.

A 2005 peace deal in Sudan opened up borders for aid and trade and Uganda has become South Sudan?s largest supplier. ?South Sudan and Uganda share a lot in terms of population movements and trade. As a result people move from one place to other [and are] likely to cause importation of the disease into the two countries once the other is affected?, the joint statement said.

Several buses ply the Juba-Kampala route daily, and there are also two flights a day from Entebbe to Juba,

"We suspect [Ebola would strike] first in the border areas, as that is where people are coming and going," said Kajamsuk Moi, CEO of the country?s leading but run-down hospital in Juba.

"WHO are not worrying a lot but we've already taken some emergency measures where we've activated the national task force and enhanced surveillance of the border areas with Uganda", said Abdinasir Mohamed Abubakar, WHO South Sudan?s head of communicable diseases.

It is also educating communities near the border on Ebola risks and signs of infection, as well as training health workers to be able to identify and treat it.

The Health Ministry has called for ?more vigilance? from all health workers who are ?requested to wear personal protective gear at all times of examining patients presenting at a health facility?.

However, the country faces severe socioeconomic, health, educational and infrastructural challenges: 98 percent of its revenue was lost after the shutdown of oil production in January; there are only 100km of paved roads in a country bigger than France; illiteracy is widespread; and ethnic tensions continue to simmer in Jonglei State - to mention just a few of the factors hampering effective implementation of anti-Ebola measures.

The UN Development Agency (UNDP) said in July, as South Sudan celebrated its first birthday, that hospitals outside the capital had started to run out of drugs. Other donors say the government has stopped buying basics, leading to chronic shortages of medicines nationwide.

Misplaced optimism?

Despite this, Moi said he was sure that if Ebola struck, the government would rush in supplies somehow.

"If it hits, we are already prepared. South Sudan's health system is not as strong as Uganda's but I think we have the tools and the means to prevent and contain an outbreak", said Abubakar.

Moi said premises previously used for cholera cases existed for up to 30 people if Ebola strikes the capital.

"We in the hospital, we are ready. We have the quarantine so if there is any such disease we will admit them to isolation. We can take more than 20, maybe 30, into isolation?, he said.

Moi said Juba Hospital is not yet on high alert. "It is still early for us and it was only yesterday that the Ministry of Health talked about this [Ebola] so in the coming days people will be alert, but we never saw one patient with this yet," he said.

No vaccine has been found for the highly infectious disease, which WHO says has a fatality ratio of 23-90 percent. Transmitted through touch, fluids and waste from a living or dead person, it causes fever which can lead to bleeding from orifices and death within days.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96011...r-Ebola-or-not

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 12:02 PM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-25? deaths, 232+ contacts being monitored

Ebola kills 10 in Ntungamo

Grief has befallen on the people of Ntungamo in Western Uganda following an outbreak of Ebola in in Kibutamo LCI in Ntungamo District.
The reports from this district indicate that over 10 people have died of suspected Ebola and over 35 others are admitted at the different health centres in the district. The dead include Benon Rumanzi, 45, Kenneth Kwoshaba 22, Faraziya Katayomba, 93, Geoffrey Turyahebwa, 21, Eliphaz Tayebwa, and Jovance Katongana, 42.

The relatives of the deceased persons told Ntungamo district health officials that the deceased vomited and complained of headache, fever and too much heat before their death.

http://www.weinformers.net/2012/08/0...Information%29

**Ronan Kelly** · August 2, 2012, 01:35 PM

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Ebola was spread widely at funeral of first victim

4 hours ago ? Associated Press
The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the first victim of the latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda was a 3-month-old girl and that of the 65 people who attended her funeral, 15 later contracted the deadly disease.

At least 11 of those who attended the baby's funeral have since died, the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
...

News, Sports, Jobs - Daily Herald

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/world/africa/ebola-was-spread-widely-at-funeral-of-first-victim/article_ccabc6ca-9be8-5d21-8648-39b6eeb2f1c2.html

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 03:39 PM

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Airports agency issues new rules to check Ebola spread
File | NATION Travellers from Uganda undergo Ebola screening at Busia border point. Kenya Airports Authority have issued guidelines for airlines operating from Uganda to curb Ebola spread.

Posted Thursday, August 2 2012 at 21:00
In Summary

Flights from Uganda expected to report suspected cases on board for emergency evacuation

Airport authorities have prepared guidelines for airlines operating flights from Uganda to Kenya to ensure no Ebola cases enter the country.
These are part of measures taken to ensure that the deadly disease, which was first detected in Kabaale district in Uganda, does not spread to Kenya.

Kenya Airports Authority public health officer Mohammed Duba said scheduled and chartered flights arriving from Uganda were expected to report suspected cases on board so that emergency evacuation could be arranged.

?We have issued memos to airlines with flights from Uganda to Nairobi advising the crew on what steps to take in case there are any suspected cases on board,? he said.

At the JKIA, an isolation facility has been set up and an emergency exit prepared to evacuate visitors suspected to have contracted the disease that has so far claimed 15 lives since it was first detected two weeks ago.
Other measures contained in the memo include a directive to have precautionary equipment aboard flights and also prepare a locator card, which entails filling in the names of two passengers sitting at the front, back and sideways of a suspected case, which are then monitored on entering the country.

Mr Duba, who is a member of the National Taskforce on Ebola, said the country was not in panic, as the team was closely working with World Health Organisation officials, who had assured Kenya that the area where Ebola cases were reported had been quarantined.

?The WHO has assured us all the contacts had been followed up and quarantined,? he said.



In the affected parts of western Uganda, 38 cases suspected to have contracted the deadly disease through contact with the victims, have been quarantined.

Meanwhile, Public Health minister Beth Mugo told Parliament that any suspicious cases would be tackled immediately.

A suspected case in Siaya on Monday was cleared yesterday following tests at Kemri, which came out negative. The man is said to have eaten contaminated meat from a goat that had been rescued from a python.

Separately, panic gripped Eldoret?s Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital on Thursday morning after a patient exhibiting symptoms of Ebola sought treatment.

Acting director John Kibosia said the patient had fever and traces of blood in his urine and stool.

?The patient had clear symptoms of the haemorrhagic fever. We are still treating it as a suspected case but we have isolated the patient in a special wing to ensure that he doesn?t get in contact with others,? said Dr Kibosia.

According to the relatives, the 20-year-old man had recently travelled to Juba through Uganda.

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Airport...z/-/index.html

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 04:27 PM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-25? deaths, 232+ contacts being monitored

Eldoret ebola scare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzksRQMnDeI
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Government on ebola situation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYmv-lLmDfM
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**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 04:51 PM

Re: Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 14-25? deaths, 232+ contacts being monitored

Add this one please.

http://www.ntvuganda.co.ug/general_page.php?id=5846

on CNN now

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**alert** · August 2, 2012, 08:31 PM

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Page not found – NTV Uganda

http://www.ntvuganda.co.ug/general_page.php?id=5846

An additional 5 people have been confirmed to be suffering from the deadly Ebola Virus in Kibaale District following tests carried out yesterday at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.
The development comes after seven more specimens were taken from patients admitted at the isolation facility set up at Kagadi Government hospital.

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 09:58 PM

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Mulago on alert as Ebola cases hit 30
Friday, August 3 2012 at 01:00
One person yesterday died of suspected Ebola at Mulago Hospital as 12 new cases of the haemorrhagic fever were registered at Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale District, health officials confirmed last night.

Permanent secretary Asuman Lukwago said the latest fatality was a case from Luzira, a Kampala suburb, and the patient checked-in with diarrhea and vomiting.
?The relatives wanted to take the body but we stopped them because we have sent samples to Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe to establish if he died of Ebola or some other infection.?

This development came amidst unconfirmed reports that the national referral hospital was separately handling eight suspected Ebola cases following the death last month at the facility of a clinical officer referred from Kibaale.

Last evening, when Daily Monitor visited, hospital staff were erecting an isolation centre at the former cholera treatment just outside the fence of new Mulago to handle suspected cases. In a statement issued yesterday, the acting Director General of Health Services, Dr Dennis Lwamafa, said: ?The Ministry of Health response teams in Kampala are on the alert to respond to any suspected cases in and around Kampala.?

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Nation...z/-/index.html

**Treyfish** · August 2, 2012, 10:38 PM

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I hail from Kagadi town council in Kibaale District. My home is about a kilometre away from Kagadi Hospital where more than 20 Ebola patients have been quarantined. Before I rise up from bed every morning, I have to call my parents and relatives to ascertain whether they are fine. They live in one of the areas where Ebola cases have been confirmed.

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?I?m fine my son. But we are worried. We need your prayers,? my mother says.

Even in Hoima where I am based, I don?t feel safe simply because people travel regularly from Kibaale to Hoima and vice versa. The highly contagious disease which started from Nyanswiga village in Nyamarunda Sub County has since spread to other sub counties of Muhorro, Bwikara, Burora, Kagadi, Kyaterekera and Mugarama.

The outbreak has seen

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