Published Date: 2013-12-03 16:01:10
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed hemorrhagic fever - Uganda: (LW) susp, RFI
Archive Number: 20131203.2089792
UNDIAGNOSED HEMORRHAGIC FEVER - UGANDA (LUWERO) SUSPECTED, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Date: Mon 2 Dec 2013
From: Uganda Ministry of Health Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, Epidemiological week 47 of 2013 [18 - 24 November 2013][edited]
Suspect viral hemorrhagic fever [VHF] reported
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[Report] by Bombo GMH [General Military Hospital] on 29 Nov 2013 with complaints of fever, general body weakness, headache, sore throat, and bleeding [injection sites, hematemesis-coffee grounds, hematuria, bloody stools] since 25 Nov 2013. The patient is isolated and his samples tested negative for [ebolavirus] by PCR. Results from additional testing will be reported in due course.
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Jack Woodall
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail
<woodall@promedmail.org>
[Yellow fever should preferably have been excluded first, followed by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Marburg and Ebola viruses. - Mod.JW
ProMED awaits further information about results of laboratory testing with considerable interest.
Although the epidemiological week 47 [week ending 24 Nov 2013] report of this suspected hemorrhagic fever case is not yet an active link on the Uganda Ministry of Health website (http://health.go.ug/mohweb/?page_id=1294), it has been published, as cited above.
Bombo is located approximately 33 km (21 mi), by road, north of Uganda's capital, Kampala, in the Luwero district of Central Uganda region. Maps can be accessed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombo,_Uganda and http://healthmap.org/r/9p57. - Mod.TY]
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Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed hemorrhagic fever - Uganda: (LW) susp, RFI
Archive Number: 20131203.2089792
UNDIAGNOSED HEMORRHAGIC FEVER - UGANDA (LUWERO) SUSPECTED, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
**********************************************************************************
A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: Mon 2 Dec 2013
From: Uganda Ministry of Health Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, Epidemiological week 47 of 2013 [18 - 24 November 2013][edited]
Suspect viral hemorrhagic fever [VHF] reported
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[Report] by Bombo GMH [General Military Hospital] on 29 Nov 2013 with complaints of fever, general body weakness, headache, sore throat, and bleeding [injection sites, hematemesis-coffee grounds, hematuria, bloody stools] since 25 Nov 2013. The patient is isolated and his samples tested negative for [ebolavirus] by PCR. Results from additional testing will be reported in due course.
--
Jack Woodall
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail
<woodall@promedmail.org>
[Yellow fever should preferably have been excluded first, followed by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Marburg and Ebola viruses. - Mod.JW
ProMED awaits further information about results of laboratory testing with considerable interest.
Although the epidemiological week 47 [week ending 24 Nov 2013] report of this suspected hemorrhagic fever case is not yet an active link on the Uganda Ministry of Health website (http://health.go.ug/mohweb/?page_id=1294), it has been published, as cited above.
Bombo is located approximately 33 km (21 mi), by road, north of Uganda's capital, Kampala, in the Luwero district of Central Uganda region. Maps can be accessed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombo,_Uganda and http://healthmap.org/r/9p57. - Mod.TY]
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