Uganda has seen a resurface in the rapid spread of Ebola just two weeks after declaring its spread under control.
Reports indicate that the new cluster emerges from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.
Dr. Ngashi Ngongo of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an engagement with reporters revealed that three of five new cases have been confirmed as Ebola, with two cited as probably Ebola,
The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new cluster and another one accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first victim of the outbreak.
The Africa CDC further reveals that Ebola has completely taken over five out of one hundred forty six districts, including the capital – Kampala which is believed to be the ‘ground zero’ of the outbreak.
Ebola wiped out a rather significant amount of West Africa’s population in 2014-16 Ebola outbreak, killing more than 11,000 people making it the disease’s largest death toll. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.
