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Uganda’s Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak spreads

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Uganda’s Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak spreads

4 individuals have already died from the virus, elevating fears of an outbreak of a pressure for which there isn’t any vaccine.

A complete of 16 individuals have contracted the extremely contagious Ebola virus in Uganda, whereas an additional 18 individuals additionally doubtless had the illness, well being officers within the east African nation mentioned.

4 individuals have already died from the virus, elevating fears of a spreading outbreak that includes a pressure for which a vaccine has not but been discovered.

The outbreak has now unfold to a few districts, all in central Uganda.

“The Ministry of Well being Fast Response Groups stay on floor to record and comply with up contacts to the confirmed circumstances,” the ministry mentioned on Sunday, urging elevated vigilance.

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Authorities first declared an outbreak, attributed to the comparatively uncommon Ebola Sudan pressure, within the central district of Mubende across the starting of September. The primary casualty was a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week.

Journey restrictions on non-essential work and a ban on giant public gatherings have already been imposed in Mubende, mentioned well being ministry spokeswoman Emma Ainebyoona.

In 2019, Uganda skilled an outbreak of Ebola Zaire. The virus was imported from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was battling a big epidemic in its northeastern area.

Ebola is a haemorrhagic fever whose signs embrace intense physique weak point, muscle ache, headache and sore throat, vomiting, diarrhoea and rashes amongst others.

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The dying price is often excessive, ranging as much as 90 % in some outbreaks, in line with the World Well being Group.

First recognized in 1976 within the DRC – then known as Zaire – the virus, whose pure host is the bat, has since set off a sequence of epidemics in Africa, killing about 15,000 individuals.

Human transmission is thru physique fluids, with fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea the primary signs.

Outbreaks are troublesome to include, particularly in city environments.

People who find themselves contaminated don’t turn into contagious till signs seem, which is after an incubation interval of between two and 21 days.

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At current, there isn’t any licensed remedy to forestall or deal with Ebola, though a variety of experimental medicine are in improvement and hundreds have been vaccinated within the DRC and a few neighbouring nations.

The WHO says the Ebola Sudan pressure is much less transmissible and has proven a decrease fatality price in earlier outbreaks than Ebola Zaire, a pressure that killed almost 2,300 individuals within the 2018-2020 epidemic within the DRC.

The worst epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016 killed greater than 11,300 individuals.

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Police charge three people with death of One Direction star Liam Payne

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Police charge three people with death of One Direction star Liam Payne

Toxicology tests show One Direction star had cocaine, prescription drugs and alcohol in his system.

Three people have been charged over the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne’s death, according to the Argentine prosecutor’s office.

Payne had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system when he died, authorities said in a statement.

They have charged someone close to Payne, a hotel employee, and a suspected drug dealer, it was announced on Thursday.

All three are accused of playing a role in giving Payne the drugs. The person who was visiting with Payne is also charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death”, authorities said. They are not naming those who have been charged.

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Fall from balcony

Payne, who had a child, died at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony on October 16 in Buenos Aires. He died from multiple injuries caused by the fall. His body was found in the hotel’s internal courtyard.

Payne was a member of the popular boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 after its members, Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, had auditioned as solo acts for the television show The X-Factor.

The band was created by the show’s judge, Simon Cowell and shot to international fame. The group had been on hiatus since 2016 as the band members pursued solo careers.

‘Breakdown’

Initial police investigations showed Payne was alone in his room and experiencing a “breakdown”.

Following his death, police found substances in his hotel room, such as packs of clonazepam, a central nervous system depressant, energy supplements and other over-the-counter drugs strewn among his belongings.

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Authorities also recovered a whiskey bottle, lighter and mobile phone from the internal courtyard where Payne’s body was found.

In recent years, Payne had acknowledged struggling with alcoholism, saying in a YouTube video posted in July 2023 that he had been sober for six months after receiving treatment.

Payne’s death sparked an outpouring of grief from his fans and fellow band members.

The Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, where he died, has become a place for Payne’s fans to pay their respects. They have left flowers, candles and photos of the singer in a makeshift shrine around a tree at the hotel’s entrance.

Payne had travelled to Argentina to see former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan in concert two weeks before he died.

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French Watchdog Probes Polymarket, Where Trader Won Big on Trump Bet

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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s gambling regulator said on Thursday it was examining whether Polymarket, the platform where a French trader placed a successful multi-million dollar bet on Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election, complies with French laws. “We are currently examining its …
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Israel takes hard line against terrorists, allowing deportation of family members

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Israel takes hard line against terrorists, allowing deportation of family members

A new law in Israel allows for the deportation of family members of Palestinian attackers, including Israelis, to the Gaza Strip or another location.

Passed by Israel’s parliament, known officially as Knesset, early on Thursday with a 61-41 vote, the law was championed by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his far-right allies. Deportation of a terrorist’s immediate family member could be ordered by the interior minister authority following a hearing, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Family members who had advance knowledge of an attack and failed to report it to police or “expressed support or identification with an act of terrorism or published words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for an act of terrorism or a terrorist organization” would be subject to the law, The Times of Israel reports. 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening of the 25th Knesset session marking the anniversary of the “Iron Swords” war, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

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They would be deported for a period of seven to 20 years. The Israel-Hamas war is still raging in Gaza, where tens of thousands have been killed and most of the population has been internally displaced, often multiple times. 

Legal experts believe that any attempt to implement the law would likely lead to it being struck down by Israeli courts.

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Police disperse people protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, near the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

“The bottom line is this is completely nonconstitutional and a clear conflict to Israel’s core values,” Eran Shamir-Borer, a senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and a former international law expert for the Israeli military, told the Associated Press. 

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Israeli forces monitor activity in the Gaza strip. (IDF)

It is unclear if the law will apply in the occupied West Bank, where Israel already has a long-standing policy of demolishing the family homes of attackers. Palestinians have carried out scores of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks against Israelis in recent years.

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Palestinians living in Israel make up around 20% of the country’s population. They have citizenship and the right to vote but face widespread discrimination. Many also have close family ties to those in the territories and most sympathize with the Palestinian cause.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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