Uganda is set to receive a hundred doses of a trial vaccine being developed to prevent the Ebola Sudan strain.
Dr. Tegnen Woldermariam revealed this yesterday at a weekly World Health Organization Africa press conference where he explained that there are two trial drugs being studied whose safety data has been obtained for the strain.
The trial vaccine that has been chosen for Uganda will be provided by the National Institutes of Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
Dr. Tegnen speaking…….
Meanwhile, the country has recorded a cumulative forty-four confirmed cases of Ebola where ten including health workers have since succumbed to the virus.
Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Health Minister visited Mubende Regional Referral hospital yesterday, reassuring the country’s renewed efforts to control further transmission.
She said eight people have so far been discharged although one refused to go back home because her two-year-old baby is still in isolation with active disease. Dr. Aceng speaking…….
Dr. Aceng warns the public not to lose guard as infected people are still being freshly identified. END