The Ugandan health ministry has said the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the country has risen from three to nine.
Recall that the East African country last month declared an outbreak of the severe, often-fatal viral infection in the countr
It was gathered that the latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.
According to Uganda’s health ministry in a statement late on Monday, ‘of the nine confirmed cases, one person had died, seven were being treated in a hospital in the capital Kampala and one was in a hospital in the eastern city of Mbale, near the Kenyan border.”
The ministry said all eight patients are in a stable condition, and 265 contacts of the confirmed cases have been placed under quarantine.
Uganda has launched a trial vaccination programme against the Sudan strain of Ebola, the World Health Organization said this month.
Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was behind recent outbreaks in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
