{"id":425123,"date":"2011-05-16T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:27:58","slug":"country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"38.4212667054\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/sudantribune180.png\" alt=\"Sudan Tribune (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Sudan Tribune (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>15 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Kampala \u2014 Ebola virus killed one person in Uganda, health officials said at a press conference on Saturday. 30 people who came into contact with the deceased 12 year old girl are under observation.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola haemorrhagic fever has standard cure. Ebola belongs to the virus family called Filoviridae. It is include strains; Sudan, Reston, Zaire, Bundibugyo and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebola virus that was reported in Lewuro district, a few kilometres away from Kampala, is thought, by Uganda ministry of health officials, to be from Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are investigating the source of the disease, the people this girl had contact with but we know it&#8217;s a type of Ebola common in Sudan,&#8221; said Anthony Mbonye, the chief of Ebola task force in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Mbonye noted that &#8220;laboratory investigations confirmed the cause of death and illness&#8221; of the girl was Ebola.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/csi\/00170236_81e558ccd1ba4055b057612e301c9671\/w260x.jpg\" width=\"260\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Duncombe<\/p>\n<p>A market along the Ugandan border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ebola is characterised by high fever, joint and muscle pains, headaches, dry throat, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney function, internal and external bleeding. It that kills over 50% of patients.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola was first recorded in patients near the Ebola river in what is not the Democratic Rebuplic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan ebolavirus was first recorded in 1976 in a cotton factory in Nzara. It resurfaced in 2004 in Yambio, South Sudan, killing five.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the Uganda Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in the Bundibugyo District which the World Health Organisation confirmed was a new strain.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105161899.html\" title=\"Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda - Official\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda &#8211; Official<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 May 2011 Kampala \u2014 Ebola virus killed one person in Uganda, health officials said at a press conference on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda - Official - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda - Official - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"15 May 2011 Kampala \u2014 Ebola virus killed one person in Uganda, health officials said at a press conference on Saturday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/sudantribune180.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/country-strain-ebola-virus-kills-one-in-uganda-official\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Country Strain Ebola Virus Kills One in Uganda &#8211; 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