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Patient with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever isolated
The Independent October 17, 2022 Health, NEWS, The News Today
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Soroti Regional Referral Hospital isolated a patient confirmed to have Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, a widespread disease caused by a tick-borne virus. The patient is a woman from Aprikila Sub County in Kaberamaido District.
She has been admitted to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital on Wednesday after a referral from Kaberamaido Hospital where she was taken to treat a headache and stomachache earlier in the week.
“While in Kaberamaido, we were told that her condition needed further management and she was referred to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital. It is from Soroti that we started hearing about the disease,” one of the nephews said...
Date notified to WCO 23-Oct-22
Start of reporting period 12-Jul-22
End of reporting period 15-Oct-22
Total cases 5
Cases Confirmed 5
Deaths 1
CFR 20,00%
From 12 July to 15 October 2022, five cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been confirmed in Uganda from Amuru, Kaberamaido, Mubende, Rakai, and Wakiso districts with one death. Response measures such as patient isolation, contact tracing, suspect quarantine, as well as risk communication and community engagement have been taken. Districts are on high alert due to the Ebola virus disease outbreak.
... https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/363780/OEW43-1723102022.pdf
Nakasongola on high alert after Crimean fever kills boy
Friday, December 02, 2022
By Dan Wandera
Daily Monitor
Health officials have placed Nakasongola on high alert after the district registered a Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever case that claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday.
The deceased was a Primary Six pupil and a resident of Kikoiro Village in Lwampanga Sub-county.
Blood samples taken to Entebbe Hospital on Tuesday confirmed the disease.
Dr Agaba Byamukama, the district health officer, told this publication yesterday that more than four facilities that handled the case couldn’t detect the fever...
