STORY: Uganda declares new Ebola outbreak, with one death in national capital
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 30, 2025
DATELINE: Jan. 31, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:11
LOCATION: Kampala
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Ugandan Ministry of Health
2. various of the press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) DIANA ATWINE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health Uganda 

STORYLINE:

Uganda announced an Ebola outbreak on Thursday after a health worker in the Ugandan capital of Kampala succumbed to the deadly virus.

Diana Atwine, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health, told reporters in Kampala that samples taken from a 32-year-old male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital had tested positive for the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease.

Atwine said that the patient experienced multi-organ failure and died at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala on Wednesday, marking the eighth Ebola outbreak in the East African country.

A total of 45 contacts have been listed, including 30 health workers and patients from Mulago hospital, 11 family members of the deceased, and four health workers at Saidina Abubakar Islamic Hospital in the central district of Wakiso, where the deceased first sought treatment.

SOUNDBITE (English) DIANA ATWINE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health Uganda
"Vaccination of all contacts is going to be undertaken. As I talk, we are mobilizing the Ebola vaccines in the country. The good thing: We had the vaccines and we shall begin with the contacts that so far we have listed. But also we work with the UN agency, we are working with WHO to help us secure additional doses."

The Ebola virus is highly contagious and causes various symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhea, generalized pain or malaise, and in many cases internal and external bleeding.
   
According to the World Health Organization, the fatality rate for those who contract Ebola ranges from 50 percent to 89 percent, depending on the viral subtype.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kampala. 
(XHTV)