Observing personal protection and social measures is crucial to mitigate the spread and transmission of #COVID19 among the general population.
Here are key tips to keep yourself and others safe:
✅ Handwashing
✅ Wearing a mask
✅ Physical distancing
Let's work together to prevent the spread of #Lassafever.
Be a guardian of proper sanitation in your community and promote frequent #Handwashing with soap and running water.
Read our latest #LassaFever situation report:
https://t.co/bJgujjEji7
We are currently doing 3 major things to slow and stop the #Ebola in Uganda:
- Engaging with the affected communities
- Strengthening the health system, particularly in the area where many cases have been reported.
(1/2) @AfricaCDC@laktarr001
The three youths who were involved in the exhumation of an Ebola-infected body in Kassanda district have also since succumbed to the viral hemorrhagic fever. They exhumed a body that had been buried by a district-specialized burial team to allegedly perform burial rituals.
It's important those who have Ebola and those who work to protect others from Ebola never feel like criminals.
The enemy is the disease.
There have been arrests of Ebola workers who socialized and broke curfew and lockdown and now Ebola patients are described as being "hunted".
The Ebola situation in Uganda is escalating fast with 14 newly infected individuals in one of the most populated cities in East Africa, Kampala.
Kampala is known for its major international hub and if an infected individual gets on a plane we will have a big problem worldwide.
#Ebola is a highly infectious and deadly disease. It is spread through direct contact with blood, saliva, faeces, vomit, urine or sweat of an infected person.
#EbolaOutbreakUG
Yesterday 21st Oct. 2022, three individuals from among the 60 in our Mulago isolation facility tested positive for #Ebola. These were contacts to the case from Kassanda who passed on in Mulago Hospital.
They have since been under institutional quarantine in Mulago isolation unit.
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Following the Outbreak of the #Ebola Virus Disease detected in Uganda, the National Emerging Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers Technical Working Group coordinated at @NCDCgov conducted a rapid risk assessment to inform Nigeria’s preparedness.
Press release ⬇️
https://t.co/UJfmQdsL45
Ebola Virus Disease has continued to claim the lives of Ugandans, with four more deaths recorded by press time, putting the cumulative death toll at 23 people and 23 recoveries.
@MugenyiHenry_#NBSLiveAt9#NBSUpdates
#virusesinsilico October lecture already in the making: @S_Lequime will speak about endogenous viral elements #EVEs as genomic fossils to explore the deep-evolutionary history of viruses.
#virusevolution
Registration is already open: https://t.co/VTmzh6ZEue