UGANDA ENDS EBOLA 42 DAY COUNTDOWN WITHOUT ANY NEW CASE By Goodluck Musinguzi FILE PIC: Health workers wearing protective gear against Ebola. /AP Uganda on Tuesday ended a 42-day count down to be declared Ebola-free with no case reported in the period, the country’s Minister of Health said. Ruth Aceng, …
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CDC, WHO, Uganda to host regional meeting as Ebola spreads By Goodluck Musinguzi Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan …
Read More »A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak
A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months Ugandan authorities introduced control measures to bring the Ebola outbreak to a swift end. An Ebola awareness van in Kampala in …
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Treatment of Ebola patients and vaccinations During the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo in 2018 to 2020, various experimental therapeutics were used for the first time and evaluated in a study. Two antibody preparations, Inmazeb and Ebanga, were shown to be highly effective against the Zaire Ebola virus. At the …
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Prevention and Vaccine Against Ebola In Uganda-CDC By Goodluck Musinguzi Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a very rare disease that can cause illness in people. It is believed to occur naturally in specific animal populations that live in multiple sub-Saharan African countries. In the areas where EVD is most common, …
Read More »Uganda declares end of Ebola after 4-month outbreak
Uganda declares end of Ebola after 4-month outbreak The country discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital in December 2022 and has passed WHO’s 42-day timeline. Uganda has declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak it struggled briefly to contain but was then able to swiftly bring …
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UNDP SUPPORTS KCCA EFFORTS TO FIGHT EBOLA By Goodluck Musinguzi The battle to end Ebola virus is registering tremendous success in Kampala city and the country at large and there is hope that the virus will be history soon. In Kampala it’s now day 18 since a case was reported …
Read More »AFRICA CDC OPTIMISTIC ABOUT UGANDA’S EBOLA OUTBREAK- AHMED OGWELL OUMA
AFRICA CDC OPTIMISTIC ABOUT UGANDA’S EBOLA OUTBREAK- AHMED OGWELL OUMA By Goodluck Musinguzi The Africa CDC’s acting Director, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma says Uganda has reached day 39 without recording any new case of ebola which shows the government’s excellent coordination of Ebola-containment measures. “The Ebola outbreak in Uganda is not …
Read More »Uganda edges closer to being declared Ebola-free
Uganda edges closer to being declared Ebola-free What you need to know: Africa’s top public health body, Africa CDC ,said on Thursday that the outbreak in Uganda was under control. According to the Ugandan Health ministry, 3,600 health workers are still on standby countrywide, while district and community task …
Read More »Ebola in Uganda: Red Cross and community members fight the virus’s spread
Ebola in Uganda: Red Cross and community members fight the virus’s spread By Goodluck Musinguzi The Uganda Red Cross Society conducts safe and dignified burials for community members suspected to have died of Ebola Uganda is currently facing an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD). The first case of …
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