{"id":8699,"date":"2025-02-11T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:47:52","slug":"number-of-confirmed-ebola-cases-in-uganda-rises-to-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/number-of-confirmed-ebola-cases-in-uganda-rises-to-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda rises to nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/uganda-ebola-cases-rise-nine-up-three-health-ministry-says-2025-02-11\/\">Reuters<\/a> The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country&#8217;s health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The East African country&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/uganda-confirms-outbreak-ebola-capital-kampala-2025-01-30\/\">declared<\/a>&nbsp;an outbreak of the severe, often-fatal viral infection late last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s health ministry said in a statement late on Monday that of the nine confirmed cases one person had died, seven were being treated in a hospital in the capital Kampala and one was in a hospital in the eastern city of Mbale, near the Kenyan border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/uganda-ebola-cases-rise-nine-up-three-health-ministry-says-2025-02-11\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country&#8217;s health ministry said. The East African country&nbsp;declared&nbsp;an outbreak of the severe, often-fatal viral infection late last month. The latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine. Uganda&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebola","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-11-at-17.46.22.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}