Conan Businge and Luke Kagiri
10 November 2009
Kampala — THE Government has sent a team to Mityana to investigate an outbreak of Ebola.
The Commissioner of community health, Dr. Sam Okware, said the health ministry sent a surveillance team to carry out precautionary measures if Ebola was confirmed.
This was after reports this week that Jackie Tumuhairwe, a suspected case, was brought to Mityana Hospital and quarantined.
Muamin Kalule, a senior nursing officer in charge of the isolation centre, said Tumuhairwe had signs of the deadly hemorrhagic fever. The symptoms included vomiting, abdominal pain and bleeding.
Tumuhairwe, from Mawanda village in Kakindu sub-county, said she had been having fever for the past four days after eating antelope meat.
There were fears that Tumuhairwe's husband, also her care taker, might spread the infection to other patients as he was moving freely in other wards. Authorities promised to handle the matter.
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