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Experts Rush to Contain New Ebola Outbreak in Western Uganda
Experts with Medicins San Frontieres (MSF), an international medical aid agency, were sent on November 13 to the northwestern Ugandan town of Kiryandongo, Masindi district, to assist the containment of new outbreak of Ebola cases there.
Two MSF experts from Gulu district in northern Uganda, where the first Ebola outbreak was witnessed in September, joined a team which had already been in Kiryandongo, according to a press release issued by MSF Regional Information Office for East and Central Africa.
The team, which consists of experts from the Ugandan Health Ministry and the World Health Organization, is in Kiryandongo to assess the situation, assist local health authorities in managing new Ebola cases, and help set up a task force for the disease, the release said.
So far four people have been killed by Ebola in the town, the release said.
Meanwhile, the Ugandan Health Ministry announced that in the past two days, 11 new cases were reported in the country with five deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 329 and the death toll to 110.
A total of 191 patients have fully recovered from the deadly disease in Gulu area, the ministry said.
It is the first time that Ebola has stricken Uganda. The disease hit southern Sudan in 1979, and it struck the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1995, killing over 300 people.
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