Uganda declared free of ebola

Jun 18, 2011

EBOLA disease surveillance will continue despite the end of the outbreak, the Ministry of Health has said.

EBOLA disease surveillance will continue despite the end of the outbreak, the Ministry of Health has said, reports Mary Karugaba and Innocent Anguyo.

State minister for health, Richard Nduhuura, said yesterday that surveillance will be especially in the central districts of Kampala, Nakaseke, Wakiso, Mukono and Luweero.

Also, ecological studies to find out the cause of the disease will continue.
Nduhuura was speaking at a function to mark the end of the epidemic, which broke out in May.

“Heightened surveillance will continue so that we can capture any new cases. We managed to control the epidemic,” he said.

The outbreak was confirmed on May 12, after a 12-year-old girl from Zirobwe sub-county in Luweero died at Bombo Hospital.

This has remained the only confirmed case of the Ebola outbreak and the subsequent 25 suspected cases were negative despite the fact that the four had signs of the disease.

The disease is a contagious haemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate.

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