Saturday, 22 February 2020

PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Africa (06): Uganda, WHO

Yellow Fever -- Uganda
From 4 Nov [2019] through 14 Feb 2020, 8 laboratory-confirmed cases of yellow fever in Buliisa (3), Maracha (1), and Moyo (4), including 4 deaths (CFR 50%), were detected through the national surveillance system.
On 10 Dec 2019, the Ministry of Health (MoH) was notified by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) Regional Reference Laboratory of a case of yellow fever confirmed by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The case was a 37-year-old male with suspected

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7015224&promed&0

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