Nigeria On Alert Mode As Ebola Resurfaces In Uganda-ncdc

2 years ago 04/10/2022
  • KAMPALA, Uganda-Ugandas health system, already weakened by the coronavirus pandemic and budget cuts, is struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak caused by a strain for which there are no proven vaccines or antiviral treatments and which cant be detected by rapid tests.

    Two weeks after Ugandan authorities first announced that a 24-year-old man had died of the relatively rare Sudan strain of Ebola, there are now 43 confirmed cases, including nine deaths.

    Nineteen other people who either lived in ... [see source for more information]