The man visited two private clinics between September 11 – 15 without improvement.
He was then referred to the Regional Referral Hospital (RRH) on September 15 where he was isolated as a suspected case of viral hemorrhagic fever. A blood sample was collected on September 17 and sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) in Kampala where RT- PCR tests conducted were positive for SUDV on September 19. On the same day, the patient died.
As of September 25, the Minister of Health reports 36 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case patients in Mubende and Kyegegwa districts (18 confirmed, 18 suspected) and 23 cumulative deaths (4 confirmed, 19 probable).2
A total of 399 contact cases have been identified and 104 are under follow-up.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is setting up an Ebola Treatment center and WHO deployed medical supplies, providing logistics and deploying staff to support the Ugandan authorities in halting the spread of the virus.
DG ECHO’s health partners are actively responding to the situation, in particular by strengthening measures in refugee settlements, including setting up an isolation unit.
Sudan virus disease is severe, often fatal illness affecting humans, first reported in southern Sudan in June 1976.1
Since then the virus has emerged periodically and up to now, seven outbreaks caused by SUDV have been reported, four in Uganda and three in Sudan. The estimated case fatality ratios of SVD have varied from 41% to 100% in past outbreaks.
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