On the 29th September Kagadi District confirmed its first case. īy the 25th September cases had been confirmed in Kyegegwa District and Kassanda District. On 20 September 2022, the Ugandan health authorities declared an outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus in the Mubende District. On 11 September 2022, the index case of the outbreak, a 24-year-old man in a village of the Mubende District developed symptoms of Ebola and died on 19 September 2022. As of October 20, the eight most recent Ebola cases had no known contacts with known patients, suggesting incomplete contact tracing and unknown chains of transmission. Gold traders who move along the highway between Kampala and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have spread it.
The first cases were detected in the Mubende District among people living around a gold mine. This was the first identification of the Bundibugyo virus (BDBV). Occurred in the Bundibugyo District in western Uganda. The three greatest risks associated with Sudan virus infection were attending funerals of case-patients, having contact with case-patients in one's family, and providing medical care to case-patients without using adequate personal protective measures. Occurred in the Gulu, Masindi, and Mbarara districts of Uganda. Uganda has previously had four outbreaks of Sudan ebolavirus one outbreak in 20 and two outbreaks in 2012, as well as an outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease in 2007 and an Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2019. See also: List of Ebola outbreaks and List of epidemics ĭue to a rapid response by authorities and public cooperation, the Ugandan government said on 21 October that they expect the epidemic to be over by the end of 2022. On 12 October, the first recorded death in the capital of Kampala occurred 12 days later on 24 October, there had been a total of 14 infections in the capital in the last two days. As of 24 October 2022, there were a total of 90 confirmed or probable cases and 44 deaths. As of 25 October 2022, there were confirmed cases in the Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kassanda, Kagadi, Bunyanga, Kampala and Wakiso districts. The infections were declared an outbreak on 20 September 2022 by the Ugandan Ministry of Health. It is Uganda's fifth outbreak with Sudan ebolavirus. Over 130 people have been infected as of 28 October, 2022. The 2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak is an ongoing outbreak of the Sudan ebolavirus, which causes Ebola, in the Western Region and Central Region of Uganda.
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