A new outbreak kills a nurse in Kampala

The Ministry of Health in Uganda confirmed a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with one death.

The victim was a 32 -year -old male nurse whose symptoms included “high fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing” and “bleeding from multiple body sites”.

He died from a multi -region failure on Wednesday at Moliango National Hospital, located in the city’s central commercial area.

This is the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda in Uganda since the first infection documented in 2000.

Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) is a high infectious bleeding fever that is transmitted through physical fluid contact and tissue. It is one of the strains of the Ebola virus known to cause a spread.

In the days before his death, the nurse went to multiple health facilities as well as the traditional therapist, before confirming the diagnosis.

He also went to a general hospital in MBALE, a city of Kenya Challenge.

The ministry said 44 calls to the deceased man, including 30 healthcare workers, had been identified for tracking.

Fast response teams were published to try to contain the disease.

But contact with communication may be difficult because Kampala, a loud city of more than four million people, is a major travel center to South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and other neighboring countries.

It was the last last Ebola outbreak in Uganda in September 2022, which was also caused by Soudf. It was concentrated in the Mobindy area, which was announced four months later.

There are six known types of Ebola virus. It is known that four of them, Zaire, Bondbogio, Sudan, and Tai Forest, caused a disease in humans.

Reston and bombali strains mainly affect non -human mainly.

Unlike the most common Zaire Ebola virus, there is no approved vaccine for Sudan’s dynasty.

Symptoms of Ebola infection include fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, internal and external bleeding.

The World Health Organization (the World Health Organization) estimates that, on average, Ebola kills five out of every 10 injured individuals.

However, the outbreaks of the past showed the death rate in the event of 25 % to 90 %, depending on the conditions and response measures.