Ebola is back. Via WIREDUK
in Uganda. He had bleeding in his eyes and had been passing blood-stained vomit and diarrhea. The man died on September 19. The next day, laboratory tests confirmed the worst fears of those caring for him: Ebola was back.
Other Ebola deaths have also been reported in the region. Six people from the man’s family, three adults and three children, also died between September 11 and 15. The Uganda Ministry of Health dispatched a rapid response team to the affected villages in Mubende district to do a verbal autopsy—collecting information on the likely cause of death from local people. The risk of infection from conducting a physical autopsy would be too high.
That more people have died than recovered is striking, but not surprising. Ebola is a rare but highly dangerous viral disease that killsof people who fall ill with it. Fruit bats are thought to be the natural host of the virus, but it can also infect primates, rodents, and humans, spreading via the bodily fluids of infected animals or people, both alive and dead.
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