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Uganda isolates six in monkeypox scare
Friday June 10 2022
By Daily Monitor
Summary
The samples are being taken for laboratory analysis to SA, some 4,800 kilometres away, because Uganda has no reagents and officials confirmed attempts to secure them from the neighbouring DR Congo are still unsuccessful.
Uganda is flying to South Africa samples taken from six individuals – two of them Congolese refugees aged 2 and 12 – suspected to have contracted monkeypox ravaging non-endemic countries.
The samples are being taken for laboratory analysis to SA, some 4,800 kilometres away, because Uganda has no reagents and officials confirmed attempts to secure them from the neighbouring DR Congo are still unsuccessful.
Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), an otherwise premier laboratory and virological research institute, said it commenced preliminary investigations after receiving information that half-a-dozen individuals had presented with signs and symptoms similar to that of monkeypox.
Two of the suspected cases have been isolated in the south-western Kisoro District, which borders the DR Congo and Rwanda, while four persons have been taken into isolation in Kampala City.
Health workers managing the patients said they presented with elevated body temperatures and blisters, prompting them to take samples for tests to confirm or rule out monkeypox...
Uganda isolates six in monkeypox scare
Friday June 10 2022
By Daily Monitor
Summary
The samples are being taken for laboratory analysis to SA, some 4,800 kilometres away, because Uganda has no reagents and officials confirmed attempts to secure them from the neighbouring DR Congo are still unsuccessful.
Uganda is flying to South Africa samples taken from six individuals – two of them Congolese refugees aged 2 and 12 – suspected to have contracted monkeypox ravaging non-endemic countries.
The samples are being taken for laboratory analysis to SA, some 4,800 kilometres away, because Uganda has no reagents and officials confirmed attempts to secure them from the neighbouring DR Congo are still unsuccessful.
Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), an otherwise premier laboratory and virological research institute, said it commenced preliminary investigations after receiving information that half-a-dozen individuals had presented with signs and symptoms similar to that of monkeypox.
Two of the suspected cases have been isolated in the south-western Kisoro District, which borders the DR Congo and Rwanda, while four persons have been taken into isolation in Kampala City.
Health workers managing the patients said they presented with elevated body temperatures and blisters, prompting them to take samples for tests to confirm or rule out monkeypox...