Africa must plan to respond to outbreaks without outside help, a top health official said, warning that the continent is 'on its own' during pandemics.
. He said no help has come to Africa, where more MPX deaths have been reported this year than anywhere in the world.
The epicenter of Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is a rural community in central Uganda where health workers were not quick to detect the contagious disease that manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever.Somalia is in the grip of the worst drought anyone there can remember, a disaster that has already caused the deaths of thousands of people.
Ebola can be difficult to detect at first because fever is also a symptom of malaria. Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and, at times, internal and external bleeding.
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