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Renovated lab to ease diagnoses
Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:28
Written by Racheal Ninsiima
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Since 2000, we have witnessed diseases like Ebola, typhoid, anthrax, Hepatitis E and yellow fever, among others. An Ebola outbreak in Gulu in October 2000 claimed more than 170 lives including that of Dr Matthew Lukwiya.
The disease broke out again in Bundibugyo in November 2007, claiming 37 lives and leaving 148 people infected. According to Dr Gladys Kalema Zikusoka, a practising veterinary doctor, zoonoses are associated with people living in close proximity with their animals.
?The burden of zoonoses is usually greatly underestimated and this has had serious consequences in terms of funding for both research and control initiatives,? Dr Kalema says.
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Dr Issa Makumbi, head of Epidemiology and Surveillance at the ministry of Health, says sustainable control of zoonoses is reliant on surveillance but this is rarely implemented in the developing world because of lack of sufficiently cheap diagnostics.
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It response, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) renovated the viral haemorrhagic fever lab (VHF) in Entebbe.
The lab provides for rapid detection, surveillance and diagnosis of viral diseases associated with haemorrhagic fevers like Ebola and Marburg. The lab includes specialized diagnostic equipment for virus detection, rapid tests for characterization of viruses, a high containment area with secure and limited access and improved ventilation and air access systems.
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http://www.observer.ug/index.php?op...e-diagnoses-&catid=58:health-living&Itemid=89
Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:28
Written by Racheal Ninsiima
...
Since 2000, we have witnessed diseases like Ebola, typhoid, anthrax, Hepatitis E and yellow fever, among others. An Ebola outbreak in Gulu in October 2000 claimed more than 170 lives including that of Dr Matthew Lukwiya.
The disease broke out again in Bundibugyo in November 2007, claiming 37 lives and leaving 148 people infected. According to Dr Gladys Kalema Zikusoka, a practising veterinary doctor, zoonoses are associated with people living in close proximity with their animals.
?The burden of zoonoses is usually greatly underestimated and this has had serious consequences in terms of funding for both research and control initiatives,? Dr Kalema says.
...
Dr Issa Makumbi, head of Epidemiology and Surveillance at the ministry of Health, says sustainable control of zoonoses is reliant on surveillance but this is rarely implemented in the developing world because of lack of sufficiently cheap diagnostics.
...
It response, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) renovated the viral haemorrhagic fever lab (VHF) in Entebbe.
The lab provides for rapid detection, surveillance and diagnosis of viral diseases associated with haemorrhagic fevers like Ebola and Marburg. The lab includes specialized diagnostic equipment for virus detection, rapid tests for characterization of viruses, a high containment area with secure and limited access and improved ventilation and air access systems.
...
Full text:
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?op...e-diagnoses-&catid=58:health-living&Itemid=89