Uganda has discharged the last eight patients who were recovering from an Ebola outbreak declared last month, health authorities reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone and reflected Uganda\u2019s speedy response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n
Most of the Ebola patients were treated at the main referral facility in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.<\/p>\n
The lone fatality from the latest outbreak was a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared in Kampala on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
His relatives were among those later hospitalized with Ebola.<\/p>\n
Ugandan officials documented at least 265 contacts from the initial infection.<\/p>\n
At least 90 of them have completed a period of quarantine during which they were monitored for signs of Ebola, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters in Kampala.<\/p>\n
There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola, which has spread in the latest Ugandan outbreak.<\/p>\n
But authorities have launched a clinical study to further test the safety and efficacy of a trial vaccine as part of measures to stop the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n
The last outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, which began in September 2022, killed at least 55 people by the time it was declared over four months later.<\/p>\n
Ebola is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials.<\/p>\n
Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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