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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n

Authorities declared an outbreak in the central district of Mubende last week, the East African nation’s first Ebola fatality since 2019.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the health ministry shared a graphic on Twitter showing that the cumulative deaths were now seven, up from five on Wednesday, while the total number of confirmed cases had reached 35.<\/p>\n

In a televised press briefing on Wednesday, Museveni said some 19 others classified as probable Ebola cases had also died, but said they were buried before they could be tested for infection.<\/p>\n

Since the initial outbreak was discovered in Mubende, infections have been found in three other districts — Kassanda, Kyegegwa and Kagadi — but Museveni vowed not to cordon off the affected regions.<\/p>\n

“We decided that we shall not have lockdowns. It is not necessary,” the 78-year-old leader said, telling Ugandans that there was “no need for anxiety”.<\/p>\n

Ebola is an often-fatal viral haemorrhagic fever named after a river in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it was discovered in 1976.<\/p>\n

Human transmission is through body fluids, with the main symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea.<\/p>\n

Outbreaks are difficult to contain, especially in urban environments.<\/p>\n

People who are infected do not become contagious until symptoms appear, which is after an incubation period of between two and 21 days.<\/p>\n

At present there is no licensed medication to prevent or treat Ebola, although a range of experimental drugs are in development.<\/p>\n

Uganda, which shares a porous border with the DRC, has experienced several Ebola outbreaks, most recently in 2019 when at least five people died.<\/p>\n

The DRC on Tuesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged in eastern North Kivu province six weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Only one case of the virus had been confirmed, according to the World Health Organization, making the DRC’s Ebola outbreak its “least catastrophic”.<\/p>\n

The worst epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016 killed more than 11,300 alone. The DRC has had more than a dozen epidemics, the deadliest killing 2,280 people in 2020.<\/p>\n

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