While a growing number of Ebola infections has prompted lockdown measures in portions of Uganda, no cases have yet been reported in the U.S., according to health officials.
"I do not have a high expectation at all that we would see Ebola cases here," the doctor said."...But our team and CDPH, no matter what, when there is an outbreak of something around the world... We are a very globally connected city, and we do a lot of work to make sure that we are as ready as we can be," she said.
Ebola has infected 58 people in Uganda since Sept. 20, when authorities declared an outbreak. At least 19 people have died, including four health workers. Authorities in the country were not quick in detecting the outbreak, which began infecting people in a farming community in August as the"strange illness" described by local authorities.on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the disease.
The new measures come amid concern that some patients in the Ebola hot spots could surreptitiously try to seek treatment elsewhere — as did one man earlier this month, rattling health officials. Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, 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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