Posted on 01/30/2025 7:18:48 PM PST by dynachrome
Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000. The patient, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, had initially sought treatment at various facilities, including Mulago, as well as with a traditional healer, after developing fever-like symptoms. "The patient experienced multi-organ failure and succumbed to the illness at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Jan. 29. Post-mortem samples confirmed the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (strain)," the ministry said in a statement. Forty-four contacts of the deceased man have been listed for tracing, including 30 health workers, the ministry said. However, contact tracing could be challenging as Kampala, where the latest Ebola infection cropped up, is a crowded city of over 4 million people and a crossroads for traffic to South Sudan, Congo, Rwanda and other countries.
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Oh, noooeee….. we’re ALL gonna die….AGAIN!
Bet the rent, Trump won’t be importing the infected here.
Like the other lunatics...
Who was imported besides the Americans who came home for medical treatment?
Ebola is a pretty serious thing. Our family knew one of the doctors who in 2014 was tasked with trying to bring the epidemic under control. Brave man.
Thomas Eric Duncan. Thomas Eric Duncan (December 30, 1972 – October 8, 2014) was a Liberian citizen who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States
Btw, there have been several groups who’ve wanted to bring infected foreigners into the U.S. for treatment. You never heard this?
Who imported him?
Thank God our borders are no longer open, since before, nobody was checked for communicable diseases, they just waltzed in, to spread their diseases to all.
If Ebola is not a bioweapon created by the CIA, then my name is Stansfield Turner.
"""On September 19, Duncan went to Monrovia Airport, where, according to Liberian officials, he lied about his history of contact with the disease on an airport questionnaire before boarding a Brussels Airlines flight to Brussels. In Brussels, he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Washington Dulles Airport."""
Are you good with this?
You need to start paying better attention to the events over the past 40+ years.
“””If Ebola is not a bioweapon created by the CIA, then my name is Stansfield Turner.”””
The first Ebola breakout was in 1976 in the Congo.
“””Bet the rent, Trump won’t be importing the infected here.
Like the other lunatics...””””
I asked you who was imported, I’m still asking it.
“Thomas Eric Duncan. Thomas Eric Duncan (December 30, 1972 – October 8, 2014) was a Liberian citizen who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States”
Remember the Obama admin wasn’t going to keep Ebola victims out of the USA. Said something like it wasn’t fair that only Africans were getting it.
Ya think I’m going to repeat everything you were just told?
lol....
They’ve been wanting to import the infected into the U.S. for many years...yep...
Hi, Stan. Ebola was first documented in 1976, but has been putatively linked to prior outbreaks of disease in sub-saharan africa for a long time.
80% mortality is a hard barrier to break or reach, and I doubt any man-made virus could sustain that for the almost 50 documented years since the first documented outbreak.
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