Jimu News Reporter Song Qingying
According to CNN on October 17, an Ebola outbreak broke out in Uganda . As of now, 63 confirmed cases have been found, including 29 deaths. Uganda President Museveni announced a lockdown on high-risk areas for three weeks.
Uganda outbreak Ebola (Photo source: CNN)
Museveni said in a televised speech on the 14th that due to the continued rising cases of Ebola infection, the two high-risk areas of Mubend and Kasanda were immediately blocked for three weeks, and the two areas were prohibited from entering and exiting except for freight trucks.
In addition, curfews will be imposed in the two areas, with places of worship, bars, gyms, saunas and other entertainment venues closed, but schools will remain open. "Given the severity of the problem, preventing the infection from spreading further, the government is taking additional measures that require all of us to take action."
Ebola is a rare but deadly virus that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with the patient's body fluids, rather than through airborne viral particles. According to CDC , people infected with Ebola will not be infected until symptoms appear, including fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, fatigue, loss of appetite and unexplained bleeding.
There is currently no cure for the Ebola virus that appears in Uganda, and no corresponding vaccine has been approved. Earlier this month, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Adhanom Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the vaccine that has recently successfully curbed the Ebola outbreak in the Congo (DRC) has no effect on the type of Ebola virus currently prevalent in Uganda.
"However, there are several vaccines in different stages of development against the virus, two of which may begin clinical trials in Uganda in the coming weeks, awaiting regulation and approval from the Ugandan government," Tedros said.
Uganda has experienced four Ebola outbreaks, the deadliest one in 2000, which killed more than 200 people. In September this year, relatively rare cases of Sudanese strains were found in various regions of Uganda, and Museveni announced that the Ebola outbreak had occurred again.
(Source: Jimu News)
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