Last Updated: January 09, 2023, 19:14 IST
The outbreak has been attributable to the Sudan pressure of the virus, for which there’s at present no vaccine.
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According to the World Health Organization, an outbreak of the illness ends when there are not any new instances for 42 consecutive days — twice the incubation interval of Ebola.
Uganda stated on Monday it was anticipating to declare an finish to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late final 12 months and has claimed the lives of at the very least 56 individuals.
If no new case is reported by Tuesday, the well being ministry stated it will formally announce the top of the outbreak on Wednesday.
According to the World Health Organization, an outbreak of the illness ends when there are not any new instances for 42 consecutive days — twice the incubation interval of Ebola.
Health ministry spokesman Emmanuel Ainebyoona stated in an invite to journalists that the “declaration ceremony” will take place in the central district of Mubende, the epicentre of the outbreak.
Since the Ugandan authorities declared the latest outbreak in Mubende on September 20, the East African nation has registered 142 confirmed cases and 56 deaths, with the disease spreading to the capital Kampala.
The final confirmed affected person was discharged from hospital on November 30, in response to well being officers.
The outbreak has been caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is currently no vaccine.
But three candidate vaccines — one developed by Oxford University and the Jenner Institute in Britain, another from the Sabin Vaccine Institute in the United States, and a third from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) — are being trialled in Uganda.
Ebola is an often fatal viral haemorrhagic fever. The disease is named after a river in Democratic Republic of Congo where it was discovered in 1976.
Human transmission is through body fluids, with the main symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea.
Outbreaks are difficult to contain, especially in urban environments.
People who are infected do not become contagious until symptoms appear, which is after an incubation period of between two and 21 days.
Uganda, which shares a porous border with the DRC, has experienced several Ebola outbreaks, most recently in 2019 when at least five people died.
The worst epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016 killed more than 11,300 people alone. The DRC has had more than a dozen epidemics, the deadliest claiming the lives of 2,280 people in 2020.
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