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Why Health Minister Aceng is ‘quiet’ on numbers COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda is in the midst of yet another episode of the hemorrhagic fever Ebola following a Jan.30 announcement by Dr. Diana Atwine, the Ministry of Health’s Permanent Secretary. In a hastily arranged press conference in the …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The results of a patient who had exhibited Ebola-like symptoms and died at the entrance of Mbale Regional Referral Hospital have turned negative. Asumin Nasike, Chairperson of the Mbale City Ebola Response Committee, also Mbale Resident City Commissioner says that it has been confirmed that the …

KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda has started screening departing travelers for Sudan Ebola virus disease (SVD) at the East African country’s border points to prevent the exportation of the virus. Travelers departing through Uganda’s 53 designated border points and Entebbe International Airport, the country’s main international gateway, are being …

MBALE, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda’s Ministry of Health said Wednesday the country is safe for tourism and trade despite an Ebola outbreak. Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters in the eastern Ugandan city of Mbale that the outbreak is confined to well-defined areas in Kampala, the Ugandan …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | Russian specialists are engaged in consultations aimed at preventing Ebola outbreaks in Uganda, Russia’s sanitary watchdog said in a statement. According to the agency, Uganda’s Health Ministry reported on January 30 that a medical professional had been diagnosed with Ebola virus disease. It was found …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | The ongoing Ebola vaccine trial in Uganda is an achievement in the fight against the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. In a statement posted on its website late Monday, the WHO said the trial, which began with contacts of the index Ebola …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 contacts of a patient who succumbed to the deadly Sudan Ebola virus are under isolation in Mbale City. Last week, the Ministry of Health declared an Ebola outbreak after a 32-year-old male nurse from Mbale, who was working at Mulago National …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Senior Health Educator of Jinja City, Sayyid Kalume, has confirmed that 25 contacts of the two Ebola patients identified last week have been traced. The majority of these contacts are family members and neighbors of the patients, who were isolated after testing positive …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has started rolling out the Ebola Sudan Trial Vaccine to high-risk populations following the recent outbreak in Uganda. This comes after the country registered its eighth outbreak of the Ebola Sudan strain, in which a health worker from Mulago Hospital succumbed …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) has set up an 84-bed Ebola isolation and treatment facility in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, following the virus outbreak in the east African country, a health official said Monday. Henry Kyobe Bosa, incident commander at the …