Uganda’s latest outbreak of Ebola kills its first health worker

A Tanzanian physician working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the primary well being employee killed by the illness within the newest outbreak within the nation, Uganda’s well being minister stated on Saturday.

“I remorse to announce that we’ve misplaced our first physician, Dr. Mohammed Ali, a Tanzanian nationwide, 37-year-old Male,” the well being minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, tweeted.

She stated Ali had examined optimistic for Ebola on Sept. 26 and died whereas receiving remedy at a hospital in Fort Portal, a city about 300 kilometres west of the capital Kampala.

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Authorities within the east African nation introduced the outbreak of the lethal hemorrhagic fever on Sept. 20 triggering fears of a significant well being disaster within the nation of 45 million individuals.

There is no such thing as a vaccine for the Sudan pressure of the illness behind the newest Uganda infections.

The well being ministry stated on Friday, earlier than Ali’s demise, that the illness had thus far contaminated 35 individuals and killed seven.

Ali was amongst six well being staff who embody medical doctors, an anaesthesiologist and one medical scholar who’ve contracted the illness.

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Ebola primarily spreads via contact with the bodily fluids of an contaminated individual. The viral illness has signs together with intense weak point, muscle ache, complications and a sore throat, vomiting, diarrhoea and rashes amongst others.