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Ebola Cases Reach 413 in Uganda
Another seven Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda since last Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 413, Ugandan Health Ministry announced Tuesday, December 12.
"The five cases in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu and two in Masindi in the west have been admitted to hospitals in the period," Assistant Commissioner for National Disease Control Alex Opio told a news briefing here at the ministry's headquarters.
"Things are getting better with fewer cases reported in the past five days, and it is really very encouraging," said Opio.
He said that the ministry is still intensifying control measures and supplying necessary protective materials to the affected districts, adding that social mobilization is going on.
The control efforts will not end until 42 days after the last patient is discharged from hospital, Opio stressed.
Meanwhile, the health ministry has announced that the Mbarara district in the southwest is now Ebola free with no new cases reported in the past six weeks, according to Opio.
Five cases had been confirmed with four deaths in Mbarara district in October.
Opio said the Ebola epidemic is now only within Gulu and Masindi districts.
So far 161 have been killed in the country since the Ebola epidemic broke out in Gulu in September. Ebola, first identified in 1976 in parts of Sudan, struck the southern Sudan again in 1979, and in 1995 it hit Kikwit, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing over 300 people.
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