Do you ever wonder why Ebola kills a person just too fast? Well, the reason behind this is that Ebola triggers the cytokine storm in the immune system.
According to experts, many other viruses can trigger this shock, but Ebola stands out since it tricks the immune system into launching the cytokine storm. A virologist, Christopher Basler says a Cytokine storm makes the blood vessel walls more permeable.
The storm also triggers a massive release of nitric oxide, which thins out the blood and damages vessels further.
On September 26 last year, a doctor in Uganda tested positive while receiving treatment at Fort portal, an Isolation facility (J Medic) in Uganda. Dr. Jane Ruth Ocero Uganda's Health minister, through his Twitter account, announce this sad story to the public.
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Dr. Jane stated that Ali was the first doctor and second health worker to succumb. The first health worker was a midwife from St. Florence Clinic.
The Tanzanian citizen doctor Ali had been pursuing a Master's in Medicine and Surgery course at Kampala International University.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus. On Wednesday, 28, 2022, the president said the country could contain the outbreak. " We decided that we shall not have lockdowns. It is not necessary, " said Museveni. Mr. Museveni stated that the Ugandan government can control the outbreak as it has done the same before.
Ebola is a Fatal hemorrhagic fever named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it was first discovered in 1976.
This disease makes the immune system forget to make antibodies by essentially shutting down all the alarms of dendritic cells.
On September 27, 2022, the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared Ebola virus as an outbreak. This is after it had affected Butanuka health area, Beni health zone, and North Kivu province.
According to the World Health Organisation(WHO), people have been affected as of September 27, 2022, were about 550 persons.
There have not been any Ebola cases from Uganda in 2023.
