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GLIDE Record
(2761 of 8314)
Event:
EP Epidemic
Number:
2012-000195
Country:
UGA Uganda
Location:
Luwero district
Date (YMD):
2012-10-25
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Information Source:
IFRC
Comments:
The Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Luwero District after test from Uganda Virus Research Institute came positive for Ebola Sudan on two samples collected by PCR and serology. A total of four people have since died, out of which, two were from one family. This is the second Ebola outbreak in Uganda in three months. The first case involved a driver of a Boda Boda ? (motorcycle taxis common in Uganda) - who died on 25 October 2012.
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