Ugandan nurse dies of Ebola

A antheral caregiver successful Uganda has died of Ebola, the archetypal recorded decease by the illness successful the East African state since an outbreak ended successful 2023, wellness officials said.

The 32-year-old caregiver worked astatine Mulago National Specialised Hospital successful Kampala, Diana Atwine, imperishable caput of Uganda’s wellness ministry, said Thursday.

The caregiver died Wednesday of the Sudan strain of Ebola, Atwine said.

He sought attraction astatine respective hospitals and had besides consulted with a accepted healer earlier tests confirmed an Ebola diagnosis, wellness officials said.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted connected X that his enactment was supporting Uganda’s efforts to incorporate an Ebola outbreak successful Uganda with a $1 cardinal allocation from WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies.

Atwine said connected her X societal media relationship that “rapid effect teams are afloat deployed, interaction tracing is underway, and each indispensable measures are successful spot to incorporate the situation. We guarantee the nationalist that we are successful afloat control.”

Contact tracing, however, could beryllium challenging successful Kampala, with its colonisation of 4 cardinal people.

The wellness ministry, however, reported that it had identified 44 contacts of the precocious nurse, which included 30 different wellness attraction workers.

The symptoms of Ebola, an often fatal disease, see fever, vomiting, diarrhea, musculus pain, and astatine times interior and outer bleeding.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wellness attraction workers and household members caring for idiosyncratic with Ebola are astatine precocious hazard for contracting the disease.

WHO said Ebola “is transmitted to radical from chaotic animals (such arsenic effect bats, porcupines and non-human primates) and past spreads successful the quality colonisation done nonstop interaction with the blood, secretions, organs oregon different bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g., bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.”

Ebola’s fatality complaint is astir 50%, WHO said connected its website, but it besides said that fatality rates person varied from 25% to 90% successful immoderate outbreaks.