The government together with Centre for Disease Control (CDC), have set up a temporary virus research institute at Ibanda and a diagnostic laboratory at Kabale Referral Hospital in an effort to reduce the delays and help contain the Marburg cases identified.
Addressing a press conference yesterday at media centre Dr. Acheng Jane Ruth, the director general health services made the statement after journalists demanded for the names and ... read more »
Ministry of Health and its partners have hired ten technical experts to handle and contain the spread of Marburg cases in the identified districts. read more »
The Ministry of Health and experts from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention have set up a field diagnostic laboratory in Kabale district to quicken testing of suspected ... read more »
When marburg fever recently broke out in Katumba sub-county, Kabale district and claimed lives, some residents blamed it on witchcraft. It took the intervention of health experts ... read more »
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