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Uganda's Ebola Outbreak Death Toll Up to 3, Another 26 Isolated, Head of Task Force Says

© AFP 2023 / ISAAC KASAMANIHealth workers stand at a non-gazetted crossing point in the Mirami village, near the Mpondwe border check point between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Health workers stand at a non-gazetted crossing point in the Mirami village, near the Mpondwe border check point between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo  - Sputnik International, 1920, 23.09.2022
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Uganda has reached three people, with 26 more placed at an isolation facility, the head of the Mubende district Ebola task force, Rosemary Byabashaija, said on Friday.
"Today, as we talk, we have 26 patients, 11 of them are seriously sick and in the emergency. But last night we lost our young girl of about 12-13 years, she died. Since [the outbreak] started, in the hospital we have lost three people," Byabashaija said.
On Thursday, Ugandan officials reported seven Ebola cases, including one death.
Earlier in the week, the Ugandan authorities declared an Ebola outbreak in Mubende after the death of a 24-year-old local resident infected with the Ebola-Sudan strain.
A health worker puts on protective gears as he prepares to screen travellers at the Mpondwe Health Screening Facility in the Uganda's border town of Mpondwe as they cross over from the Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 13, 2019. - Sputnik International, 1920, 22.09.2022
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Confirmed Ebola Cases in Uganda Rise to Seven
Ebola is an acute viral infection that affects humans and some other species of animals. The Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2015, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia becoming the epicenter of the outbreak. According to the World Health Organization, during the last major epidemic 28,600 people were infected with Ebola, and more than 11,300 of them died.
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