At a press conference on Tuesday, the health authorities in Uganda confirmed that there is an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the country. The University of Bergen has 15 students who are in practice at a hospital in the capital, Kampala. – UiB has been in contact with the students. No one is infected, they are fine, but as a preventive measure we are working to get them home, says the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Per Bakke to news. According to Bakke, there is no drama, but they want to be on the safe side. He says that Ebola is transmitted by contact, through, among other things, blood and other bodily fluids. – When they are in contact with patients, it is theoretically a possibility and then we found that it was just as well that they could come home. He emphasizes that the students are doing well and that they took the news about going home in stride. Facts about Ebola Photo: CDC The hemorrhagic fever Ebola is caused by several types of Ebola virus within the filoviridae family. The virus originates in central Africa. The infection is transmitted by direct contact with sick persons’ blood and other body fluids and by direct skin contact. Symptoms are sudden high fever, severe abdominal pain, headache and muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. Patients quickly become dehydrated. Gradually, kidney and liver function weakens, and internal and external bleeding occurs. The incubation period is usually 4-6 days, and a maximum of 21 days. The outbreak in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2013-2015 is the largest ever. Around 29,000 people were infected, 11,300 died. Source: NTB / WHO/ CDC Man died A 24-year-old man died after he tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola. This was reported by the Ugandan health authorities yesterday, writes the news agency Reuters. According to NTB, they do not know how he was infected by the virus. He lived in the town of Mubende, which is around 150 kilometers from Kampala. The secretary in the Ministry of Health, Diana Atwine, held a press conference on the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Uganda on Tuesday. Photo: Hajarah Nalwadda / AP According to the secretary of the Ministry of Health, Diana Atwine, the man had a high fever, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and was vomiting blood. He was originally treated for malaria. According to Atwine, six people in his family died earlier in September, and Atwine says they may also have had Ebola. That’s what VOA-News wrote. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person. Uganda has had several Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed several hundred. Eight suspected cases The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there are currently eight suspected cases in the country, writes Reuters. They receive treatment in hospital. – Uganda is no stranger to effectively countering Ebola. Because of the expertise, measures have been quickly initiated to stop the spread of the virus, says WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. Moeti says that they are helping Uganda map the outbreak and are providing extra manpower to the affected area. The outbreak in Uganda is supposed to be from the Sudan strain of the virus. This makes it difficult to vaccinate those who have been in contact with the infected. – The vaccination that worked with the Zaire strain will not help this Sudan strain, says WHO’s head of disease prevention in Uganda, Dr. Bayo Fatunmbi. The last Ebola outbreak in Uganda with the rare Sudan strain was in 2012, VOA-News writes.
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