- Hello, Jeff - The situation in Uganda and neighboring
countries is critical as people panic. Anyone who has been in contact
with an Ebola patient, or who is suspected of being ill must go to hospital.
I certainly can understand why anyone who is healthy but who had a friend
or family member with Ebola would not want to go to a hospital.
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- For the most part, anyone in a hospital suspected of
having Ebola gets no service. Patients fend for themselves and for a healthy
person, going to a hospital can lead to infection and death. The thought
of being isolated in a hospital, many of which lack the very basic necessities
like disinfectant, soaps, masks, gloves etc, and hospitalized with Ebola
victims, is frightening.
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- Neighboring countries are trying to secure their borders
but, as was the case with Rwanda, people simply walk through the border
as customs officials look on, afraid to approach people for fear they are
infected with Ebola.
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- Uganda is suffering simultaneous outbreaks of Sleeping
Sickness, Cholera, Rift Valley Fever, Hepatitis A, Malaria, as well as
Plague.
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- I have read that the actual death toll is 25. The 23
are CONFIRMED cases of death due to Ebola.
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- Patty
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- Ebola Death Toll In Uganda Rises To 23
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- APA-Kampala (Uganda) -- The
latest Ebola patient died in Bundibugyo district, the outbreak's epicenter
where hundreds are under observation for possible infection in western
Uganda on Friday, bringing the toll to 23.
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- Dr Sam Okware said here Friday the Ebola strain has infected
104 people, of which 23 have died. He also said that signs of the deadly
microbe, which first surfaced in Bundibugyo in September, had appeared
near Lake Victoria and Mbale. Dr Okware added that the health
ministry is investigating a case in Mbale, in eastern Uganda where one
person has so far died. Similar investigations are on in Masaka (central)
where two fishermen have symptoms similar to those of Ebola.
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- The health ministry said teams were also probing cases
in western Kanungu and Kasese districts and north-western Adjuman district
for possible Ebola infections. The Atlanta-based US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set up a laboratory to bolster
the Uganda Virus Research Institute "in diagnosis and analysis of
samples.
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- Isolation wards have been established in Bundibugyo and
Kikyo hospitals while healthcare and auxiliary staff are being trained
on effective measures to help stem the nightmarish microbe. Some
affected districts have also banned discotheques and public video halls
to reduce human contact. Meanwhile, the authorities have mobilized
radio stations and mobile films to reach out to risky communities while
posters, brochures and fact sheets are being distributed in the Ebola zone.
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- With outbreaks of extremely contagious cholera, plague,
meningitis and hepatitis - all Ebola companion ailments - reported in northern
and northwestern Uganda, the situation looks grim, health authorities confessed.
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- Alarmed by the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, Kenya has issued
an alert and boosted surveillance in the border region. Kenyan Health
Minister Paul Sang told the Kenyan press that any person suffering from
sudden vomiting, diarrhoea, headache and nausea must seek immediate treatment
in hospital. Unlike Uganda, Kenya has never had a brush with the disease,
whose recent mutation has stunned scientists. Rwanda and DRC have also
taken some alert measures.
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- Spread by body fluids, the blood-borne disease, Ebola
was named after a small DRC river where it was discovered in 1976. It re-emerged
in Sudan later the same year. Other outbreaks have been recorded in Ivory
Coast, Gabon and Uganda. Because of its scanty history, scientists
have concluded that the strain is somewhat containable because it kills
its victims faster than it can spread to new hosts.
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- http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?article48871
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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