Uganda starts Ebola vaccination targeting 25,000 people at risk
Uganda's Ministry of Health has announced the launch of a comprehensive Ebola preventive vaccination campaign targeting 25,000 people at high risk of contracting the deadly disease.
Uganda's Ministry of Health has announced the launch of a comprehensive Ebola preventive vaccination campaign targeting 25,000 people at high risk of contracting the deadly disease.
Emmanuel Ainebyoona, Ministry of Health spokesperson told Xinhua news agency by telephone that some of the affected workers would stay home for 21 days.
In its guidelines published on Friday, the WHO has called for countries to improve access to two lifesaving medicines against viral disease.
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A future pandemic could be worse than the ongoing crisis because we are pushing nature to its limits by destroying and degrading amazingly diverse ecosystems, like tropical forests, rivers, lakes, mountains, coral reefs and many more and ultimately removing natural buffers and expanding the interface between wildlife and people where pandemics emerge.
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As a lot of emerging evidence points out, these guidelines are easier said than implemented. In fact, as the WHO itself pointed out about the severity of the challenge in this document, “The Covid-19 pandemic is straining health systems worldwide. The rapidly increasing demand on health facilities and health care workers threatens to leave some health systems overstretched and unable to operate effectively”.
The resurgence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in the 21st century (SARS, bird flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika, Nipah and COVID-19) has turned the spotlight on animals and insects and vectors of infectious diseases as epidemic villains. Rightly are they regarded as the incubators of the existential risk for humanity.
Latest UN figures showed that some 650 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak, while about 12 new cases are reported every day.
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