Uganda: Ebola Sudan identified in 17 deaths, all monitoring completed, outbreak declared over

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...Investigators took nearly a month to confirm Ebola's presence in Uganda this year. In Kibaale, a district with 600,000 residents, some villagers started abandoning their homes to escape what they thought was an illness caused by bad luck. One family lost nine members, and a clinical officer and her 4-month-old baby died from Ebola, Byaruhanga said.
D.K. Lwamafa, of Uganda's Ministry of Health, told reporters on Saturday that one Ebola patient from Kibaale had been referred to the national hospital in the capital but had then died in Kibaale
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The confirmation of Ebola's presence in the area has spread anxiety among sick villagers, who are refusing to go the hospital for fear they don't have Ebola and will contract it there. All suspected Ebola patients have been isolated at one hospital where patients admitted with other illnesses fled after Ebola was announced. Only the hospital's maternity ward still has patients, officials said, highlighting the deadly reputation of Ebola in a country where the authorities do not always respond quickly and effectively to emergencies and disasters
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Barnabas Tinkasimire, a lawmaker from the area, said that some nurses refused to look after Ebola patients after one clinical officer died and another was taken ill.
"They are saying, `We can't remain here if there is no sufficient allowance,'" Tinkasimire said of medical officers handling Ebola cases.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_1...ganda-14-dead/

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Uganda villages under quarantine as Ebola outbreak kills 14 people

By AGATHA AYEBAZIBWE in KAMPALA
Posted Monday, July 30 2012 at 23:30
In Summary

• President advises against physical contact by avoiding shaking hands and kissing as number of Ebola patients in district increases from three on Sunday to seven

Ugandan authorities on Monday put under quarantine, three villages, and some medical staff at the national referral hospital — Mulago — after an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus at the weekend killed 14 people.


President Yoweri Museveni and health officials on Monday confirmed two cases have since been reported in the capital, with one victim reported dead in Kampala’s Mulago Hospital after the latest outbreak started in Uganda’s western district of Kibaale, 125 miles west of Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.

Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago Hospital are in quarantine after “at least one or two cases” were taken there, with one later dying from the virus.

The villages were identified as Nyanswiga, Kibaari, Kisindiizi, all in the western Uganda district of Kibaale...
..Meanwhile the number of Ebola patients in Kibaale District has increased from three as of Sunday to seven on Monday and they are all currently admitted to an isolation ward at Kagadi hospital..

Another 38-year-old female, a sister to the deceased clinical officer is still admitted at Kagadi Hospital where a ward has been designated for Ebola patients.
On Monday, the Uganda ministry of health officials banned any further referral of Ebola patients from Kibaale district to Mulago hospital in Kampala with immediate effect as a way to contain the spread.
“The disease must be handled locally to contain the spread, and we cannot accept this stampede at Mulago because all services will be at stand still,” said Dr Lwamafa.http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/...z/-/index.html

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Uganda's Ebola virus outbreak: Interview Gregory Hartl World Health Org http://audioboo.fm/boos/903082-ugand...on-rfi_english

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WHO investigates Uganda Ebola outbreak
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/0...-uganda-ebola/

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Be calm, says Museveni as Ebola cases rise to 25

Tuesday, July 31 2012 at 01:00
In Summary
Checking spread. Health officials have issued hotlines that members of the public can contact in case there is a suspected Ebola case. These are: 0774451762, 0706506294 and 0757174555




President Museveni yesterday urged the public to remain calm but take precautions as the cumulative number of people infected with the Ebola hemorrhagic fever reached 25.


Some 14 people have died since the disease broke out about three weeks ago. However, only three of the dead have been confirmed to have died of Ebola, according to the Ministry of Health.
Another seven people are admitted to hospital while seven doctors and 13 medical workers who responded to the outbreak of the disease are being held in quarantine.


President’s note
“The Ministry of Health people are tracing all the people that have had contact with the victims,” Mr Museveni said. “They have for instance put under quarantine all the seven doctors that dealt with one of the people who came to Mulago and died there as well as the thirteen health workers who were accompanying them. They are following up all the cases.”


Health ministry spokesperson Rukia Nakamatte said virologists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute were analysing blood samples taken from those admitted.

The new cases registered by the Ebola health team are from the sub-counties of Rugashali, Bwamiramira and Muhorro. In order to contain the outbreak, the Health ministry yesterday announced a ban, effective immediately, from referring Ebola patients from Kibaale District to Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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..No panic
The World Health Organisation said yesterday it did not recommend advising against travel to Uganda as a result of the Ebola outbreak.
Nevertheless health officials have issued hotlines that members of the public can use to report suspected cases of Ebola.


...“The hospital has set up burial committees to manage burials of people suspected to have died of Ebola. The committee has been oriented on burial procedures and infection prevention and control. This is one of the control measures to control the spread of the highly contiguous disease.”Mulago Hospital has also been put on standby with an isolation camp in case any cases are reported in Kampala and neighbouring districts..



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

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http://www.coastweek.com/3530_ebola.htm

July 27 - August 02, 2012
XINHUA NEWS SERVICE REPORTS FROM THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

Health officials dismiss fears
of Ebola outbreak in Kenya



People crossing the border to Kenya from Uganda
are have been required to go for thorough screening
to curb a spread of the deadly disease

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Apparently the USA CDC is sending a team to Uganda. Posted an hour ago on twitter by the former head of the CDC:

Richard Besser @DrRichardBesser
On my way to @CDCgov to meet the team heading to Uganda to investigate #Ebola. Feels like I'm heading home.

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19 new [suspected - Ro] Ebola cases reported at Kagadi Hospital
Publish Date: Jul 31, 2012

By Ismael Kasooha and Luke Kagiri

Ninteen new Ebola cases Were Tuesday morning reported at Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale district.

Mubende district bordering Kibaale has set up an isolation centre center following reports that Ebola patients from Kibaale were flocking the health unit for treatment.

This caused panic as Nurses turned away patients for fear that they could be having the deadly Ebola virus.

Mubende Hospital chief Dr. Edward Nkurunziza told New Vision that the isolation center would handle Ebola cases if confirmed.

Meanwhile seven doctors of Mulago Hospital who treated an Ebola patient from Kibaale district have been placed under quarantine.

This was done to prevent the spread of the deadly disease that has claimed 14 lives. Another 13 health workers, who accompanied the patient who died a few days ago, have also been quarantined, President Yoweri Museveni revealed Monday.
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http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/633603-19-new-ebola-cases-reported-at-kagadi-hospital.html

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The comments on the above article are rather alarming. People seem to be panicking a bit:

• 2 hours ago
Bambi let us all join hands in praying for our friends in kibale and uganda at large. Its realy bad that the disease is back, let all ugandans keep in a clean environment and avoid that deadly disease.

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Flag as inappropriatePlaese do not transfer any patients to another unit because it is of no use. Quarantine the primary and secondary contacts. Explain to the people that it is of no use to try Mulago because there is no cure for Ebola except supportive treament that can be given in the local hospital with isolation and barrier nursing. I shudder to imagine Ebola in Kampala. The city will be on fire! Prayers alone will not work. Isolate, isolate and barrier nurse!! period. If all this fails Quarantine the district immediately. Stop movement. Ask people to stock up on mobile phone units or let MTN give free airtime so that if there is a case in each family of those quarantined, the medical personale protected can evacuate the person or bury the dead and disinfect. Gloves!!!!!!!!!! for all relatives!

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Oh my God ebola is back again Museveni on this should put in more than enough for peoples lives even lets pray for our selves

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God please have mercy on uganda.first nooding disease and now Ebola again,am woried about the furcher of ugandans.i hate the short falls of development due to these clamities

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19 new [suspected - Ro] Ebola cases reported at Kagadi Hospital
Publish Date: Jul 31, 2012

By Ismael Kasooha and Luke Kagiri

Ninteen new Ebola cases Were Tuesday morning reported at Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale district.

Mubende district bordering Kibaale has set up an isolation centre center following reports that Ebola patients from Kibaale were flocking the health unit for treatment.

This caused panic as Nurses turned away patients for fear that they could be having the deadly Ebola virus.

Mubende Hospital chief Dr. Edward Nkurunziza told New Vision that the isolation center would handle Ebola cases if confirmed.

Meanwhile seven doctors of Mulago Hospital who treated an Ebola patient from Kibaale district have been placed under quarantine.

This was done to prevent the spread of the deadly disease that has claimed 14 lives. Another 13 health workers, who accompanied the patient who died a few days ago, have also been quarantined, President Yoweri Museveni revealed Monday.
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http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/6336...-hospital.html

Thanks for putting "suspected". I think this is appropriate. I am not sure what 19 represents since the article talks about the same 7 quarantined health care workers. I wonder if these are truly new cases, or not.

I really hope the media does not hype this situation. We need facts, not hype.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uganda-ebola-idUSL6E8IVD0720120731

Two suspected Ebola deaths reported in Uganda

KAMPALA, July 31 | Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:24am EDT

KAMPALA, July 31 (Reuters) - Two more people, including a child, are suspected to have died of the Ebola virus while 11 more have been put in isolation in western Uganda where the deadly haemorrhagic fever was first confirmed last Friday, health workers said on Tuesday.

So far 14 people have died of the disease and Ugandan officials fear a repeat of an outbreak in 2000, the most devastating to date, when 425 people were infected, more than half of whom died.

Dan Kyamanywa, health officer for Kibaale district where the outbreak had started, told Reuters by telephone that villagers had called medical officials on Tuesday to report that two more people had died, including a 5-year old boy.

Kyamanywa said the latest deaths also occurred in Kibaale, about 170 km (100 miles) west of the capital, and near the Democratic Republic of Congo where the virus first emerged in 1976, taking its name from the Ebola River.

"We got calls this morning about these two deaths which occurred in two different villages yesterday (Monday) evening," he said. "The team that we sent says the initial clinical signs that the patients exhibited are typical of Ebola ... also since yesterday, we have admitted 11 more suspected Ebola patients who are now in isolation."

On Monday Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni advised people to avoid shaking hands, casual sex and do-it-yourself burials to reduce the chance of contracting Ebola virus.

Kiiza Xavier, a farmer in Kibaale's Buyanja county said news of the Ebola outbreak was spreading panic among the population.

"People here love their drinking for instance, but now they're too scared to go to bars as they normally do daily," he said. "Proprietors of lodges are also seeing their incomes shrink because people have been advised to avoid sex."

There is no treatment for Ebola, which is transmitted by close contact and body fluids such as saliva, vomit, faeces, sweat, semen and blood.

In the capital Kampala where a health worker from Kibaale, Clare Muhumuza, died on Friday, residents were fast abandoning handshakes for fear of contracting the disease.

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The WHO warns of 36 suspected cases of Ebola in western Uganda

Geneva, July 31 (EFE). - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned today of the existence of at least 36 suspected Ebola infected in the region of Kibale in western Uganda, where fourteen people have died from the beginning of the outbreak in mid-month.
WHO spokesman, Tarik Jaserevic said at a press conference that so far have been detected 36 "suspected cases" of Ebola, of which four have been confirmed by laboratory tests.

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There have been four cases confirmed by laboratory testing and unfortunately two of them have died from the disease," said the spokesman, who said that in the region have also conducted clinical trials on other samples with negative results.
Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever that kills a large percentage of infected, acting quickly and easily spread by contact.
Jaserevic explained that he has created a buffer zone in the region of Kibale which is treating patients suspected to have contracted the disease.

The WHO spokesman said the international organization received last July 28 Ugandan government notification of detection of this outbreak of Ebola in the west, while the Ugandan authorities announced yesterday that it has expanded and at least a person has died in the capital, Kampala.
Jaserevic reminded that this is the fourth outbreak of Ebola that Uganda has in the past twelve years, the most serious in 2000 when 170 people died. http://translate.google.com/translat...111130593.html

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The WHO warns of 36 suspected cases of Ebola in western Uganda

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There have been four cases confirmed by laboratory testing and unfortunately two of them have died from the disease," said the spokesman, who said that in the region have also conducted clinical trials on other samples with negative results.

It is typical in a VHF outbreak to only confirm a small fraction of the suspected cases. The rest are presumed infected by their epidemiological links to the confirmed cases.

It would be informative to know how many samples have come back negative (representing unrelated severe cases of other disease, or perhaps poor/late sample collection?) and from what locations. It is prudent, of course, to continue isolation and monitoring for such negative cases in case the negative result is incorrect.

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Uganda fights deadly Ebola outbreak, WHO speaks on the disease (video)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ? Shaking hands and other physical contact could be deadly said the Ugandan President on 31 July.
The warning came after a health worker died in the capital Kampala, after traveling by bus to the city following the death of her baby.
14 people have died since the highly contagious viral illness broke out in western Uganda three weeks ago.
Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago Hospital are in quarantine after ?at least one or two cases? were taken there, with one later dying. In the meantime, health teams in Uganda are trying to track down anyone who has come into contact with patients infected with the virus.
The Geneva-based WHO is currently supporting the country to determine the extent of the outbreak.Uganda fights deadly Ebola outbreak, WHO speaks on the disease (video)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/07/...disease-video/