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Uganda health officials reported today an additional Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case and death, the first in eleven days.
According to a tweet earlier today, the Ministry of Health reports:
The positive Ebola case today, 28 Nov 2022, is a 28-week male stillborn to an Ebola survivor mother. The mother, is a 23 year old resident of Kikandwa, Kasanda district who had stillbirth. She was attended to during delivery by an appropriately donned midwife & is in good condition.
Routine contact tracing and additional case investigation are ongoing.
This brings the total confirmed cases to 142, including 56 cumulative deaths.
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