Haemorrhagic Fever Suspected in Kiryandongo District, Uganda

A patient has died from symptoms of a haemorrhagic fever, possibly Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fever, in Kiryandongo district. Laboratory tests have been requested to identify the fatal disease. Presumably, other viruses that can cause hemorrhagic fever, such as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Sosuga, yellow fever and Rift Valley fever will be included in the tests done in the Uganda Virus Research Institute. Institute.

Beratung

At this moment, the risk of exposure for the general traveller is very low. There is no treatment for Ebola. Any traveller in the affected area should avoid any direct contact with anyone suspected to have this infection since it is highly contagious and lethal. Transmission often occurs during burial rituals (such as washing the body) for deceased patients, close physical contact with infected persons and their body fluids, during sexual contact or within hospitals through contact with blood and body fluids of infected persons.