Uganda: 2019 Measles

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Source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Nati...les-outbreak/688334-5045260-eke8p8/index.html

30 people hospitalised following measles outbreak
Thursday March 28 2019
By ALEX TUMUHIMBISE

KAGADI. More than 30 people especially children have been hospitalised following measles outbreak in Kagadi District.
The measles outbreak has been reported in Rugashali and Mabale sub-counties.

Ms Naster Tumwine, a medical worker at a local clinic in Rugashali town, said the affected parishes include Rugashali, Yerudani, Buhumuriro and Ndeeba.

??It has been reported that the epidemic has been spread by students studying at Rugashali Secondary School but hailing from Bukyinda-Kyangwali in Kikuube District. We have so far registered at least 30 patients here,?? Ms Tumwine said...

 

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Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906040153.html



4 June 2019
The Monitor (Kampala)
Uganda: Measles Kills Three Children in Kagadi
By Alex Tumuhimbise

Kagadi ? Three children have died in Kyenzige Town Council in Kagadi District following a measles outbreak.

The deceased have been identified as Ahaisibwe Mugisa 7, Kusiima Alituha 4, and Kemigisa Alituha 1, children to Omuhereza Mugisa Kusiima of Buyaga Cell, Kyenzige Sub-county.

Ms Byamukama Birungi, who has been taking care of the children in Paacwa Sub-county, said they developed symptoms associated with measles that included general body weakness, skin rashes and diarrhoea at the weekend before being taken to a health centre.

One was pronounced dead and the other two died at St Ambrose Charity Health Centre Kagadi.

"We delayed to take the children to the hospital thinking that they were suffering from malaria but they unfortunately died of measles," Ms Birungi said...