Uganda said on Sunday that the number of Ebola cases had jumped to 16 people, while another 18 people were also believed to have the disease, fueling fears of a spreading outbreak that includes a strain for which no vaccine has yet been found. The Ministry of Health also said in a tweet that the number of confirmed dead cases remained at four, while 17 others classified as probable cases had also died. The outbreak has also now spread to three districts, all in central Uganda.
The East African country last week announced an outbreak of Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever whose symptoms include intense body weakness, muscle pain, headache and neck pain, vomiting, diarrhea and rashes. The current outbreak, attributed to the Ebola Sudan strain, began in a small village in Mubende district in early September, according to authorities. The first victim was a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week.
The World Health Organization says the Ebola Sudan strain is less transmissible and has had a lower death rate in previous outbreaks than the Ebola Zaire strain, which killed nearly 2,300 people in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018-2020.
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