Uganda Confirms 1 Imported Ebola Bundibugyo Case After 59-Year-Old Congolese Man Dies
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Updated · Monitor · May 15
Uganda Confirms 1 Imported Ebola Bundibugyo Case After 59-Year-Old Congolese Man Dies
7 articles · Updated · Monitor · May 15
A 59-year-old Congolese man died in Kampala on May 14 after being admitted to Kibuli Muslim Hospital with fever, respiratory distress, nausea and later bleeding symptoms.
May 15 testing at Uganda's central emergency laboratory confirmed Ebola Bundibugyo from a sample taken during his care, and the health ministry said no local case has yet been confirmed.
One high-risk relative has been isolated and authorities are quarantining contacts while deploying screening, surveillance and rapid-response teams at official and informal border points, transit routes and pilgrimage corridors.
A mobile laboratory has been sent to Bwera Hospital and response structures activated in high-risk districts as Uganda urges health workers, private clinics and the public to tighten precautions against bodily-fluid transmission.
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