Ebola suspected in Kasangati as patient dies

Kasangati residents are on edge following the death of a patient at Kasangati Health Centre IV who presented with ebola-like symptoms.

According to Dr Ssejibwa Peter, the deceased is a 22-year-old male student from Namulonge, Busukuma sub-county, and died yesterday at 5 PM after presenting symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease EVD.

Health workers have since taken blood samples from the deceased to perform tests that could prove if indeed this patient died of ebola and not any other disease.

In a video published online by KFM a health official in a full-body PPE suit is seen being sanitized after taking the sample from the dead patient.

WATCH: A health official being sanitized after picking blood samples from a 22-year-old suspected Ebola patient who passed on from Kasangati Health Centre IV on Monday, September 26. #KFMNews

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On Tuesday 20 September 2022 the ministry of health declared a new Ebola outbreak after doctors detected a case of the rare Sudan strain of the virus in Mubende district. This first case, a 24-year-old man is now deceased.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) was first detected in Africa in 1976 around the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo formerly known as Congo’s Zaire and later also detected in the current day South Sudan just 500 miles away from the first outbreak.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) comes with different signs and symptoms such as; hemorrhagic fever, headache, muscle pain, and chills, and later a person may start internal bleeding through vomiting or coughing blood.