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A man wearing protective clothing carries water to wash the interior of an ambulance used to transport suspected Ebola victims, in the town of Kassanda in Uganda, November 1, 2022.
Africa's top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is coming under control, as it has been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus was reported in the country.
Officials first confirmed the outbreak in September and said it was the Sudan strain of the disease, for which there is no proven vaccine.
Africa CDC's acting director, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, told a briefing that the outbreak will be over if no new cases are reported in Uganda by January 10.
He praised the Ugandan government's excellent coordination of Ebola-containment measures, saying it had taken around 70 days to bring the outbreak under control with 142 confirmed cases and 55 deaths. Vaccine trials against the Sudan strain of Ebola were ongoing, Ouma added.
African health authorities have made a concerted effort to boost their readiness to respond to Ebola following a devastating outbreak of the Zaire strain of the disease in West Africa in 2014-2016 that killed 11,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Ebola causes vomiting, bleeding and diarrhea and spreads via contact with bodily fluids of the infected. The virus can sometimes linger in the eyes, central nervous system and bodily fluids of survivors and flare up years later.
The World Health Organization says a country needs to pass 42 days, twice the maximum incubation period, after the last confirmed case for it to be declared Ebola-free.
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