{"id":53213,"date":"2025-03-03T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-confirms-new-ebola-case-patient-dies-at-mulago-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:50:11","slug":"uganda-confirms-new-ebola-case-patient-dies-at-mulago-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-confirms-new-ebola-case-patient-dies-at-mulago-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda confirms new Ebola case, patient dies at Mulago hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO said ver the weekend that it continues to support the national response, working with the Ministry of Health and partners to strengthen and sustain control measures to curb the spread of the virus and halt the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHO continues to support Uganda\u2019s Ebola response efforts. Our teams are working with the Ministry of Health and partners to strengthen surveillance, active case searching, contact listing and tracing, infection prevention and control in health facilities, case management, and community engagement to halt the spread of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On February 5 this year, the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwiine, announced that Uganda had kicked off clinical trials of a vaccine against Ebola Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Atwiine made the announcement just one week after the disease killed one person. The deceased was a nurse at Mulago Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She said that health workers and other people exposed to the disease were being targeted in the trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is right to test the vaccine in the condition we are in now because our health workers have been exposed, and I believe that it will have that ability. The safety trials were done, and the vaccine is safe. So now, we just want to see how protective it is because we are in the midst of the epidemic,\u201d Atwine said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umwana_w_imyaka_ine_yishwe_na_ebola-04d23.jpg\" alt=\"The case was \u201ca four-and-a-half-year-old child, who tragically passed away on 25th February\u201d at Mulago hospital, according to WHO.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has confirmed a new case of Ebola disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The case was \u201ca four-and-a-half-year-old child, who tragically passed away on 25th February\u201d at Mulago hospital, according to WHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000082878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":2000082878,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-367.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53213","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53213"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53213"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}