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GLIDE Record
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Event:
EP Epidemic
Number:
2010-000260
Country:
UGA Uganda
Location:
Northern region
Date (YMD):
2010-11-4
Time:
Duration:
2
Magnitude:
Information Source:
IFRC
Comments:
Three decades since the last case of yellow fever was reported in the 1970s, Uganda got a surprise and experienced the re-emergence of this deadly viral epidemic that started in November 2010 in the Northern Region. Initially, the disease was wrongly diagnosed as plague ? only on 23 December 2010 the diagnosis for yellow fever was confimred by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). By 29 December 2010, 10 districts were already affected with 190 cases and 48 fatalities recorded
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