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FLAVIA NASSAKA April 11, 2018 Health, In The Magazine, News, The News Today
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Dr. Harriet Nabudere, the Deputy Director General at the Uganda National Health Research Organisation (UNHRO) geared towards handling public health emergencies need to match the kinds of outbreaks that come up. ?They are a reality that we have to deal with,? she said. It all started when Dr. Julius Lutwama who heads the Arbovirology, Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases division at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) told the meeting that his team keeps picking up new viruses whenever they go out to research.
Sosuga virus, Bukakata virus and Mburo virus; these are some of the viruses that Lutwama and his team have recently found.
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While Lutwama said the constant discovery of new viruses by his team should not cause any panic because Uganda has mastered the art of managing health emergencies, many experts warned that the country is not ready to keep its people safe from the next pandemic. They pointed out the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic fever outbreak which caused confusion when the Ministry denied an outbreak in Nakaseke District, central Uganda, in January even as three people were showing symptoms of pains, high fever, neck stiffness, bleeding, vomiting and another dying as a result.
Other reports showed that by January, nine people had died of the infection by the tick borne virus when the first case was suspected in august last year. Experts are warning that more dangerous viruses to humans could emerge or known ones could change as people move more easily from one place to another; which is partly why dangerous outbreaks are on a rise in Uganda.
While some of the outbreaks go unnoticed, others like Marburg that broke out in October last year caused panic and experts now warn that since such pathogens have potential to cause enormous harm, healthcare managers should be handed with the right tools to fight them off. Crimean Congo fever, for example, is known to occasionally show up in human beings among communities within the cattle corridor. But when it broke out last year, the cattle corridor was already being ravaged by rift valley fever; an equally tough infection.
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https://www.independent.co.ug/new-viruses-found/
FLAVIA NASSAKA April 11, 2018 Health, In The Magazine, News, The News Today
...
Dr. Harriet Nabudere, the Deputy Director General at the Uganda National Health Research Organisation (UNHRO) geared towards handling public health emergencies need to match the kinds of outbreaks that come up. ?They are a reality that we have to deal with,? she said. It all started when Dr. Julius Lutwama who heads the Arbovirology, Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases division at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) told the meeting that his team keeps picking up new viruses whenever they go out to research.
Sosuga virus, Bukakata virus and Mburo virus; these are some of the viruses that Lutwama and his team have recently found.
...
While Lutwama said the constant discovery of new viruses by his team should not cause any panic because Uganda has mastered the art of managing health emergencies, many experts warned that the country is not ready to keep its people safe from the next pandemic. They pointed out the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic fever outbreak which caused confusion when the Ministry denied an outbreak in Nakaseke District, central Uganda, in January even as three people were showing symptoms of pains, high fever, neck stiffness, bleeding, vomiting and another dying as a result.
Other reports showed that by January, nine people had died of the infection by the tick borne virus when the first case was suspected in august last year. Experts are warning that more dangerous viruses to humans could emerge or known ones could change as people move more easily from one place to another; which is partly why dangerous outbreaks are on a rise in Uganda.
While some of the outbreaks go unnoticed, others like Marburg that broke out in October last year caused panic and experts now warn that since such pathogens have potential to cause enormous harm, healthcare managers should be handed with the right tools to fight them off. Crimean Congo fever, for example, is known to occasionally show up in human beings among communities within the cattle corridor. But when it broke out last year, the cattle corridor was already being ravaged by rift valley fever; an equally tough infection.
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https://www.independent.co.ug/new-viruses-found/