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Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by DAVECENA(m): 11:13pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
Uganda is grappling to contain the deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever after confirmatory laboratory tests turned positive. The outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever which was announced here on Sunday by Elioda Tumwesigye, the minister of state for health, has left one person, the index case dead, one person in isolation and over 80 others being monitored both in central and western Uganda. “The Ministry of Health would like to inform the country of an outbreak of Marburg which has so far killed one person,” Tumwesigye told reporters here at the ministry of health headquarters. According to the ministry of health, the index case died on Sept. 28 after developing signs of Marburg which were later confirmed by laboratory tests. The deceased’s brother has also developed signs and is currently under isolation at Mengo Hospital in the capital Kampala. Out of the 80 people being monitored, over 60 are health workers who made contact with the index case who was also a medical worker. Thirty-eight workers are being monitored at Mengo Hospital while the 22 others are being monitored in Mpigi. Tumwesigye said 20 other people who were involved in the burial process of the deceased are also being monitored in Kasese district in western Uganda. “The ministry of health calls upon the public to remain calm and on alert amidst this epidemic. All suspected cases can be reported to the ministry of health hotline,” he said at the joint media briefing with the World Health Organization (WHO). Wondimagegnehu Alemu, WHO Country Representative to Uganda said that the disease can be contained and therefore there is no cause for alarm. “WHO does not recommend any travel ban but the public should follow all the necessary precautions which have been put in place, ” Alemu said. “We are doing what is recommended to contain the outbreak and also making sure all the listed contacts are got,” he added. Minister Tumwesigye said WHO and Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders have already dispatched assistance. “WHO is providing technical and logistical support to all the affected facilities,” he said, adding that the ministry of health has also delivered personal protective equipment and other supplies to Mengo Hospital, Mpigi and Kagando Health Center in Kasese district. Tumwesigye said that there is no relation between this Marburg outbreak and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa which has left over 3,000 people dead. “There is no connection between these two outbreaks. We cannot link this to what is happening in West Africa,” he said noting that two hemorrhagic fevers are different. The Marburg virus was last reported in Uganda in 2012. It was reported that at that time four members of the same family in the western Ugandan district of Kabala died of Marburg. According to the WHO, Marburg is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever. According to the global health body, the illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and malaise. Case fatality rates have varied greatly, from 25 percent in the initial laboratory-associated outbreak in 1967, to more than 80 percent in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1998-2000, to even higher in the outbreak that began in Angola in late 2004. Currently some West African states are facing a related disease- – Ebola — which has left more than 3,000 people dead. source: http://www.punchng.com/news/deadly-marburg-hemorrhagic-fever-breaks-out-in-uganda/#comments |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by corisande: 11:16pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
Another one? 1 Like |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by idu1(m): 11:19pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
#lip sealed |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by idu1(m): 11:20pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
#lip sealed# tufiakwa |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by riskit33: 12:08am On Oct 06, 2014 |
One plague after another? |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by destino24(m): 12:24am On Oct 06, 2014 |
they are pretty much the same. |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by eleojo23: 5:43am On Oct 06, 2014 |
This is not good |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by Harmvirus(f): 6:37am On Oct 06, 2014 |
May God save us |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by freshness2020: 7:24am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Africa and these useless Plagues! |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by SilentCrescendo: 7:28am On Oct 06, 2014 |
For a second there I thought it was hamburger fever.... all these outbreaks in Africa, we need to sit up man |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by happykidArotiba(m): 7:43am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Yh, read it too, D mortality rate is higher than Ebola's, Bt God will conquer it 4 dem!!! Amen. |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by omicron(m): 8:02am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Marburg is arguably deadlier than Ebola. And little more is known about it too. End Time Diseases |
Re: Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Breaksout In Uganda by oluplus(m): 8:54am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Are the gods angry with black race? |
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