Posted on 01/17/2018 7:23:59 AM PST by Red Badger
DOCTORS have warned a suspected outbreak of “eye-bleeding fever” must be declared an epidemic and emergency measures imposed to tackle the disease.
Dr Mukuzi Muhereza, from the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), has warned action must be taken over reports of growing numbers of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) cases.
He warned the disease is “highly contagious” and said the people “must be protected” to prevent it spreading.
The infection causes victims to suffer from a burning fever before beginning to bleed from orifices including their eyes, anuses and mouths.
It comes amid a growing war of words between the UMA and Uganda’s health ministry, who have said there is no CCHF in the country – despite confirming a case.
World Health Organisation (WHO) officials label any outbreak of CCHF as a major threat to public health.
Dr Muhereza said: “There are a several cases that are suspected.
“We therefore state that one confirmed case of CCHF is an epidemic already.
“The government should activate emergency levels, it should activate epidemic levels.”
The top doc added he was “disappointed” in how the outbreak had been handled by the health ministry – saying it was “very very unprofessional”.
He called on more protection for health workers and action to tackle the outbreak.
There were also fears of a similar disease taking hold in neighbouring South Sudan, but WHO has confirmed this has now been ruled out.
Ugandan health minster Sarah Opendi took to Twitter to issue a denial that there was any outbreak in her country.
She wrote: "The Ministry of Health always informs the public when there is an outbreak in the country.
"It is not true, as alleged, that the ministry is concealing an outbreak.”
Health minister Opendi accused the UMA of “raising alarm” and “creating fear among the population”.
CCHF is spread to humans via tick bites or contact with raw meat and infected animal blood immediately after slaughter.
"CCHF outbreaks constitute a threat to public health services because of its epidemic potential, its high case fatality ratio (10-40%), its potential for nosocomial outbreaks and the difficulties in treatment and prevention,” WHO’s description of the virus reads.
Uganda Virus Research reportedly tested a nine-year-old boy positive with CCHF at Kihwoko Hospital – but he is said to be making a recovery.
Pictures emerged today of a girl, 9, in Uganda who allegedly died of CCHF.
She was removed from her home in a bodybag by medical officials in biohazard suits in the district Nakaseke.
How many immigrants do we welcome from Uganda? Inquiring minds REALLY want to know…….
one less from the picture above.
The victims have more than one of the last two?
Is this guy describing your average LIB?
Hey - nothing to worry about. These are civilized and modernized countries not the SH that are described by some. Oh! Me! Oh! My!
Highly contagious? Any TV media personalities want to go over and write the story? How about Acosta?
Hope they connect the dots and figure out there is an animal population that harbors this virus living there.
I think last time it was infected bats, which the locals ate, that jumped the species barrier and caused the first human cases. After that, the disease spread person-to-person through body fluids, including airborne particles from coughing.
I am not a doctor, JMO
Maybe Sens. Booker and Durbin could go over and do a ‘fact finding’ trip................
IIRC, the infected bats roosted in fruit trees, crapped on the fruits and then the people ate the fruits without cleaning it properly, if at all...................
No wonder they didn’t let her go to Korea!.................
We survived the black plague, small pox, the Spanish/American Flu, etc., etc., etc. Some eye bleeding disease is nothing to worry about, and those who survive will be stronger because of it.
I should have known sh*t would have something to do with it
Those diseases were in the era when America was very rural and people did not travel much or far.
That made it fairly easy to contain, but today is a whole different world...................
LOL!..............yep!.....but don’t let Booker hear you say that!.....He’ll cry!...................
This is a mild outbreak and way far away from an epidemic. It appears to be vectored by ticks. Red, look up the disease on a reliable source and report back on the details. Stay out of the shitholes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Congo_hemorrhagic_fever
The CCHF virus is typically spread by tick bites or contact with livestock carrying the disease.[1] Those affected are often farmers or work in slaughterhouses.[1] The virus can also spread between people via body fluids.[1] Diagnosis is by detecting antibodies, the virus’s RNA, or the virus itself.[1] It is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever.[1]
If an eye-bleeding fever is a major health concern in your country, you might just be living in a $hithole country.
I agree. And this is not the only such devastating disease prevalent in many of the countries from which this country has admitted, for whatever reason, immigrants.
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