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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Uganda: Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 48

Uganda: Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 48

NEWS
THE death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to 48, with 131 confirmed cases, a health official involved in managing the outbreak said. Last week Uganda's health minister put the death toll at 30, with 109 confirmed cases. "Confirmed cases by today 131 and 48 deaths," Henry Kyobe Bosa, Ebola incident commander at Uganda's health ministry, told a briefing organised by the World Health Organization's Africa office. "On the spread and when we are likely to have the outbreak ending I see no experts on this panel can actually predict when it will end," he said, adding authorities…
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Nov
03
2022
By The African Mirror
Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea

Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea

HEALTH
SINCE the first case of the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda was confirmed in mid-September, the number of cases has topped 127 across seven districts, including 17 in the capital city Kampala. Yet most people living in the city fear another round of lockdowns perhaps even more than they fear becoming infected. Two high-risk districts are already under a 21-day lockdown. And although the government says it is not considering Kampala high risk at the moment, it has not shied away from using the “threat” of lockdowns to try to persuade people to conform to the health procedures. These include…
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Oct
24
2022
By The African Mirror
Uganda says two new Ebola cases confirmed in Kampala hospital

Uganda says two new Ebola cases confirmed in Kampala hospital

NEWS
TWO more people in an isolation unit of Uganda's main hospital have tested positive for Ebola, bringing the total cases recorded in the facility to five, the health minister said. The five confirmed cases in Kampala are the first known transmission of the virus in the city, coming days after the information ministry said the country's Ebola outbreak was coming under control and was expected to be over by the end of the year. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said on Saturday that three patients among 60 people in isolation at Kampala's Mulago Hospital tested positive for the disease a day earlier. She had…
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Jun
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea declares end to Ebola outbreak

Guinea declares end to Ebola outbreak

NEWS
AN Ebola outbreak which started in Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the health ministry and the World Health Organization announced yesterday. Health authorities were able to move swiftly to tackle the resurgence of the virus, which causes severe bleeding and organ failure and is spread through contact with body fluids, after lessons learned from previous outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Based on the lessons learned from the 2014–16 outbreak and through rapid, coordinated response efforts... Guinea managed to control the outbreak and prevent its spread beyond its borders,"…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

HEALTH
WEST Africa’s Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016 was the most widespread in the history of the disease. By the end of the outbreak, more than 28,000 people were infected and 11,000 succumbed to the disease. Peter B James, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southern Cross University Abdulai Jawo Bah, PhD candidate at Queen Margaret University and Lecturer at , University of Sierra Leone Amie Steel, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Jon Adams, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University Despite the high number of deaths, the outbreak also…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck's Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients' contacts and contacts of contacts, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said. The cases were genetically linked to the 2018-20 Ebola epidemic that killed more than 2,200 people, the second-highest toll recorded in the disease's history. The latest flare-up emerged on Feb. 3 in the city of Butembo with the death of…
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Mar
24
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC on the brink of being Ebola free

DRC on the brink of being Ebola free

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA The Democratic Republic of Congo released its last confirmed Ebola patients from treatment centers on Monday, health authorities said, beginning a 42-day countdown to declaring the country free of the virus. Monday's release of six patients from treatment centers in the North Kivu region could mark the end of a month-long resurgence of the 2018-20 epidemic, which killed more than 2,200 people before it was initially declared over in June 2020. Twelve cases have been reported since the virus re-emerged at the beginning of February, killing six people. It's been three weeks since North Kivu health authorities have…
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Mar
14
2021
By The African Mirror
WHO: Guinea Ebola outbreak likely from human source

WHO: Guinea Ebola outbreak likely from human source

NEWS
GUINEA’S current Ebola outbreak is likely to have been sparked by a latent infection in the human population from the last outbreak rather than from the virus jumping the species barrier again, according to a World Health Organization official. At least 18 cases of Ebola have been reported in Guinea's first resurgence of the virus since the 2013-16 outbreak which was the worst in history and spread through West Africa, killing thousands. The WHO's top emergencies official Mike Ryan told a briefing the preliminary finding based on initial genetic sequencing was "remarkable" because of the period of time the virus…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Ebola risk for Guinea’s neighbours

Ebola risk for Guinea’s neighbours

NEWS
EMMA FARGE WORLD Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was "very high" and that some neighbouring countries were not prepared for outbreaks or for future vaccination campaigns. WHO's Guinea representative, Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, told a virtual briefing that 18 cases had been identified and four of those people had died. So far, 1,604 people have been vaccinated against Ebola in the new outbreak in Guinea, the first resurgence of the virus there since a 2013-2016 outbreak - the world's worst - which spread to several other West African…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Why Ebola is back in Guinea and why the response must be different this time

Why Ebola is back in Guinea and why the response must be different this time

HEALTH
NEW reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This was the largest Ebola outbreak reported to date – 28,000 cases were recorded, including 11,000 deaths. It originated in Guinea and then spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. The confirmed cases this time have been reported from the southeast of Guinea about 800km by road from the capital, Conakry, but only about 100km from various border points with Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. The concern is that the virus could spread to other locations in Guinea as well as neighbouring countries…
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