WHO reports new Ebola case in Uganda

The first case of Ebola in Uganda had been declared by the World Health Organization recently and the efforts of the Uganda government with WHO curbed the spread of the disease.

WHO reported on Wednesday, a fishmonger vomited at Mpondwe market in Uganda on July 11 before dying of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, an incident that could spread the disease in Uganda.

The area bordering Democratic Republic of Congo with Uganda is prone to be infected with this deadly virus.

Ebola is highly infectious and spread through bodily fluids. The current outbreak, largely confined to Congo apart from three deaths in Uganda last month, has killed 1,676 people - more than two thirds of those who contracted it - over the past year.

A new case of Ebola was recently declared in the North Kivu city, Goma, which borders Rwanda. The latter has been working hard to stem the outbreak by sensitizing its citizens of the possible Ebola outbreak in Rwanda.

Rwanda has already issued a travel warning to its citizens travelling to DRC in a bid to keep the Ebola outbreak at bay and not reach Rwanda territory

The WHO report said 19 other fishmongers were listed as possible contacts in the Uganda incident. It said 44 currency exchange workers had volunteered to be vaccinated, while another 590 fishmongers could be targeted for vaccination.

It should be noted that Uganda had been declared Ebola free after the first incident of the virus on one Uganda child national.