The President of this country his Excellence Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has taken the bother to warn Ugandans against hugging. Why? Because the last thing our President will stand is seeing his subjects, the citizens of this country dying just because they do not have enough self-control in their systems to constrain them from receiving and […]
Marburg virus causes hemorrhagic fevers — illnesses marked by severe bleeding (hemorrhage), organ failure and, in many cases, death. The virus is a native to Africa, where sporadic outbreaks have occurred for decades. Marburg virus lives in animal hosts, and humans can contract the viruses from infected animals. After the initial transmission, the viruses can […]
Marburg virus has been found in monkeys, chimps and fruit bats in Africa. Experts suspect the virus is transmitted to humans through an infected animal’s bodily fluids. Examples include: Blood. Butchering or eating infected animals can spread the viruses. Scientists who have operated on infected animals as part of their research have also contracted the […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the outbreak of a Marburg case in Uganda. This initial case follows laboratory tests done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) on September 30th 2014 which confirmed that one person, a health worker, had died of the viral hemorrhagic fever. The index case is a 30-year-old male Radiographer, […]