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Uganda said on Sunday that the number of Ebola cases had surged to 16, with 18 more likely to have the disease, fueling fears that the epidemic would spread, including strains for which a vaccine has yet to be found. increase.
The health ministry said on Twitter that the confirmed death toll remained at four, with 17 others classified as probable. The outbreak has now spread to his three districts in central Uganda.
The East African country last week announced an outbreak of Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever with symptoms including severe weakness, muscle aches, headaches and sore throats, vomiting, diarrhea and rashes.
New Ebola infection in eastern Congo linked to devastating 2018 outbreak
The current outbreak caused by the Ebola-Sudan strain appears to have started in early September in a small village in the Mubende district, officials said.
The first victim was a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week.
East Congo to begin Ebola vaccination after new cases reported
According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola-Sudan strain is less contagious and had a lower fatality rate in previous outbreaks than Ebola Zaire, the strain that killed nearly 2,300 people in the 2018-2020 epidemic in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is said that