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Probe into mysterious Kagadi disease continues, 6 discharged
By Ismael Kasooha
Added 20th November 2016 04:50 PM
The 6 people who have been admitted at the isolation unit in Kagadi Hospital have been discharged as investigations into the strange disease continue.
The acting district health officer Kagadi Dr. James Olowo told New Vision that after the patients tested negative to all the haemorrhagic viral fevers and anthrax, they had to be discharged but will be monitored for some time...
...Dr. Olowo said that several samples have been picked from the survivors and the remains of the piglet that was eaten such as intestines and the soils where it was slaughtered from to help in investigations.
?We are sure that the cause of the death shall be established because we have picked several samples that will help the team in investigations,? said Olowo.
Addressing residents of Kiseegu village in Kiryanga Sub County on Thursday, the Kagadi district vice chairman and secretary for health John Alibankoha warned the residents against eating animals that are found dead because such diseases could easily be transmitted to humans...
Probe into mysterious Kagadi disease continues, 6 discharged
By Ismael Kasooha
Added 20th November 2016 04:50 PM
The 6 people who have been admitted at the isolation unit in Kagadi Hospital have been discharged as investigations into the strange disease continue.
The acting district health officer Kagadi Dr. James Olowo told New Vision that after the patients tested negative to all the haemorrhagic viral fevers and anthrax, they had to be discharged but will be monitored for some time...
...Dr. Olowo said that several samples have been picked from the survivors and the remains of the piglet that was eaten such as intestines and the soils where it was slaughtered from to help in investigations.
?We are sure that the cause of the death shall be established because we have picked several samples that will help the team in investigations,? said Olowo.
Addressing residents of Kiseegu village in Kiryanga Sub County on Thursday, the Kagadi district vice chairman and secretary for health John Alibankoha warned the residents against eating animals that are found dead because such diseases could easily be transmitted to humans...