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It’s red alert over possible Ebola case Sunday, 05 August 2012 02:42 By Joas Kaijage, The Citizen Correspondent Bukoba. A state of alert has been imposed along the Tanzania border with Uganda following fears over a suspected outbreak of Ebola in Kagera Region. However, medical personnel said the case was yet to be confirmed until samples from a six-year-old boy admitted to Nyakahanga hospital in Karagwe will be sent for further laboratory tests in Uganda. In an exclusive interview with The Citizen on Sunday, the Karagwe District medical officer, Dr Elias Mayala, said the patient from Nyakatuntu Village has been...

Ebola patient allegedly diagnosed in Kagera BY EMMANUEL ONYANGO 4th August 2012 As the government tries to take measures to prevent the deadly disease of Ebola from spreading into the country, one patient has been discovered to have been infected with the viruses at Nyakage hospital in Karagwe district, Kagera region. According to one doctor from the hospital who declined to be named because he is not the authorised spokesperson, doctors at the hospital discovered a patient whose name was not immediately established with all signs of the disease when he went there for treatment on Friday. The doctor further...

Health Ministry: Flu, respiratory diseases claim 344 lives in Ukraine Yesterday at 20:36 | Interfax-Ukraine The current flu epidemic and other acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine has claimed 344 lives by Wednesday evening, the Health Ministry said. It said 18 people had died of such diseases in the previous 24 hours. The ministry said 1.502 million people had contracted such illnesses since the epidemic broke out and that 44,781 had fallen ill in the past 24 hours. A total of 83,904 people have been hospitalized since the start of the epidemic, and 54,407 of them have been discharged from the...

<p>MEXICO CITY - Churches stood empty Sunday in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico City after services were canceled, and health workers screened airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic.</p>

In this update: [1] USA - MMWR [2] USA, Mexico - WHO [1] USA - MMWR Date: 24 Apr 2009 Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Dispatch 24 Apr 2009/58 (dispatch);1-3 Update: swine influenza A (H1N1) infections --- California and Texas, April 2009 -------------------- On [21 Apr 2009], CDC reported that 2 recent cases of febrile respiratory illness in children in southern California had been caused by infection with genetically similar swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses. The viruses contained a unique combination of gene segments that had not been reported previously among swine or human influenza viruses in the United...

PANDI, Bulacan — At least six members of the so-called "depopulation team" at Win Farm in this town where 6,000 pigs are infected with the dreaded Ebola Reston virus have been suffering from "some kind of illness," a health officer said. Dr. Joy Gomez, public health officer of Bulacan, confirmed at yesterday’s press briefing that six members of the team have experienced dizziness, headache, and fatigue. The sickness experienced by the workers might be due to the protective suits that they are wearing, Gomez said, adding that the discomfort caused by the suits, which are uncomfortably hot, could become unbearable...

OTHER BUGS ACTING BADLY _______________________________________________________ International experts to study ebola reston INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC and animal health experts arrived on Tuesday to start a joint risk assessment on the ebola reston contamination of local hogs, officials of the Agriculture department said yesterday. Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III (R), flanked by international experts, addresses a press conference in Manila for an update on the outbreak of ebola reston at two pig farms north of the capital. The experts are (L to R) Kate Glynn of World Organization for Animal Health, Juan Lubroth and Kazuyuki Tsurumi of the Food and Agriculture Organization,...

The mystery viral hemorrhagic fever which killed 3 people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases [NICD] and the Department of Health said on Sunday [12 Oct 2008]. "The causative agent of the disease may be a rodent-born arenavirus related to the Lassa fever virus of West Africa," NICD's Dr Lucille Blumberg said at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She said tests done by the NICD and the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] in Atlanta, USA indicated that the disease seemed to be a kind of arenavirus. The World Health...

Hunting Virus XBELINDA BERESFORD | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Oct 12 2008 06:00 A virus new to humanity, or an old acquaintance dressed up in slightly new clothes, the disease that so far appears to have achieved a 100% kill rate in Johannesburg, is now up against the full might of humanity's scientific detectives. So far three people have died from the mysterious disease, which has retained its anonymity through an extensive first round of laboratory testing for viral haemorrhagic fevers. Based on the pattern of disease and a suspected tick bite on the first patient, the pathogen -- let...

Zambia: It's Not Ebola!The Times of Zambia (Ndola)8 October 2008THE woman from Zambia who died in South Africa from a mysterious disease was in fact afflicted by cerebral edema and multi-organ failure, putting to rest suspicions that she was hit by the deadly ebola, experts have confirmed.Five experts who carried out the investigations on two of the four deceased people revealed that the woman could have died from suspected viral infection from a tick bite that she incurred in Lusaka.Experts from Specialty Emergency Services (SES) Corpmed Medical Centre (CMC) and Wilderness Safari said that the first victim of the disease,...

Deadly virus not airborne Mass hysteria is not necessary in this caseDisease transmitted via bodily fluids THE deputy director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases has assured the public that there is no need to panic, despite the fact that four people have been killed by an unknown, highly contagious virus.Doctor Lucille Blumberg, who also heads up the NICD's epidemiology unit and consults to its special pathogens unit, referred to the death of Cecilia van Deventer, 36, as an "isolated case" and said test results were not yet available.But experts at the University of Stellenbosch believe the mystery virus...

KAMPALA, Dec 10, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Another seven people were killed by the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Uganda as twelve new cases were reported over the weekend amid an outbreak that has sounded alarm in ten out of 79 districts across the country. A total of 29 people have so far been killed by Ebola out of 113 infections as of Monday morning, Sam Okware, chairperson of the National Task Force for Ebola, told Xinhua by telephone on Monday. He said seven new cases were reported in the western district of Bundibugyo which has been hit hard...

Ugandan health workers hit by Ebola, causing panic KAMPALA, Uganda: Health workers are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, spreading panic among those needed to help. Doctors and nurses did not at first know what they were facing, so failed to protect themselves, according to a lawmaker representing the western area at the center of the outbreak. Experts say the Ebola subtype that sparked the outbreak is new and the classic Ebola symptoms were not always present, slowing diagnosis. "We are facing a crisis in health care here," said Jane Alisemera, the lawmaker representing Bundibugyo, the district...

Wed Dec 5, 3:17 AM ET KAMPALA (AFP) - The Ebola virus has killed two doctors in western Uganda, bringing the toll to 21 since the strain first appeared in September, an official said on Wednesday. "The sad news is that our doctor who was admitted in Mulago died last night and a senior clinic officer who had been in critical condition died this morning," said Samuel Kazinga, district commissioner for Bundibugyo, the epicentre of the new outbreak. Kampala's Mulago hospital is the largest in the country. Some health officials have said that a lack of appropriate equiment in Mulago...

Uganda Ebola death toll hits 19 3 hours ago KAMPALA (AFP) — The dreaded Ebola virus has killed 19 people in western Uganda since September, officials said Tuesday, with new outbreaks of linked diseases surfacing in other parts of the country. Hours after the 19th Ebola patient died in Bundibugyo district, State Health Emmanuel Otaala highlighted fears of extremely contagious cholera, plague, meningitis and hepatitis outbreaks. "As we are trying to contain Ebola, we came across four other outbreaks," Otaala told reporters. The health ministry reported cholera in western Hoima and northeastern Nebbi districts; plague in Nebbi; meningitis in Nebbi...

Ebola outbreak spreading Kampala - The Ebola outbreak that has killed 18 people in western Uganda appears to be spreading, officials said on Sunday, as authorities examined a sample taken from a dead patient in the south of the country. Government officials told AFP that the disease, which flared in September, had spread to three new zones in the impoverished Bundibugyo district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Virologists were meanwhile examining a sample taken from a suspected victim who died overnight in Mbarara region, 160km southeast of the affected district. Medics flee Health officials said several...

Nine cases of Ebola confirmed in DR Congo region KINSHASA (AFP) — Nine cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in the West Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that is at the epicentre of an outbreak that has killed at least 174 people, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said Friday. "We have now nine cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever confirmed in the laboratory, five cases of typhoid and one case of Shigella," WHO spokeswoman in DR Congo Cristiana Silvi told AFP. Symptoms of the epidemic -- high temperature, bloody diarrhoea, visible hemorrhaging -- were first seen...

Further cases of deadly Ebola virus confirmed in Congo Nine cases of the deadly Ebola virus were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. The disease causes bleeding and fever and can prove fatal in 50 to 90 per cent of cases. It was identified last week in the province of Kasai Occidental. A major field operation had been launched by the country's Ministry of Health with the WHO calling on experts in disease control from as far afield as Canada and the United States. Work was underway to establish...

Congo's Ebola Outbreak Could Be Worst in Years By Craig Timberg Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, September 19, 2007; Page A19 JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years.

Father, We pray for victory. We lift up to you our brave men and women who struggle against Evil in distant lands. Lord, our President has stood resolute in the defense of his people and the prosecution of the great darkness that enslaves so many. Grant him this victory. Let not your people's soul be fainted within. We remember and call upon you Lord at this critical time in the everlasting war on darkness. Let Evil feel thy sting. Grant our faithful leader, and your servant George Bush the courage to destroy those who would destroy us. "We will sacrifice...