Nine people died from his epidemic ebola in central Uganda over the past two weeks, the Ministry of Health said today.

The disease is often fatal, but there are vaccines and treatments for hemorrhagic fever, which is transmitted to humans from infected animals.

The previous loss, announced on Friday, was seven.

According to a tweet from the ministry, two more cases have been identified, bringing the total number of infections to 43 and deaths to 9. 882 “close contacts” of the cases have also been identified.

Jane Root Aseng Osero, Uganda’s health minister, announced on Saturday the first death of a doctor infected with Ebola. President Yoweri Museveni ruled out any kind of lockdown, assuring that the country is capable of controlling the outbreak.

Uganda has already dealt with previous outbreaks of Ebola, a disease that has killed thousands in Africa since 1976, when the first case was detected in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health authorities announced on September 23 the death of a 24-year-old man in Mubede district, the first case since 2019. The young man contracted a “relatively rare” variant of the virus, the so-called “Sudanese”, which was the latest. discovered in Uganda in 2012

Transmission from person to person occurs through bodily fluids. The main symptoms are fever, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding. There are six different strains of the virus, three of which (Budibugyo, Sudanese and Zairian) have caused major outbreaks in the past.

Source: RES-IPE