{"id":52788,"date":"2025-01-31T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/who-sends-emergency-team-as-ebola-outbreak-kills-one-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:13:17","slug":"who-sends-emergency-team-as-ebola-outbreak-kills-one-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/who-sends-emergency-team-as-ebola-outbreak-kills-one-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO sends emergency team as Ebola outbreak kills one in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak was confirmed on Thursday after a 32-year-old nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital succumbed to the Sudan Ebola virus. Uganda\u2019s Ministry of Health declared it the country\u2019s eighth Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>WHO is working closely with Ugandan authorities to enhance surveillance, case management, community awareness, and risk communication.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials revealed that the deceased initially sought treatment at multiple facilities, including a traditional healer, before his diagnosis. So far, 45 contacts have been identified and isolated, including health workers, family members, and patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health announced an immediate vaccination rollout for all identified contacts and frontline health workers using available Ebola vaccine doses.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda had confirmed another Ebola outbreak in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola is a highly contagious viral disease with symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding. Its fatality rate varies between 50% and 89%, depending on the virus strain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-80926\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bo-9.jpg\" alt=\"WHO is working closely with Ugandan authorities to enhance surveillance, case management, community awareness, and risk communication.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched an emergency medical team to assist Uganda in containing a new Ebola outbreak that has claimed the life of a health worker in Kampala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000080989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000080989,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo-9-e8e81.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000080989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}