CIDRAP Update: The Death In Jinja District WAS From A Known Contacts / Clusters Chain...

The fine folks at CIDRAP have confirmed a later breaking report, compared to my earlier one: the 45 year old man who died near the shores of Lake Victoria and the so-called White Nile headwaters. . . was not a new chain / cluster event.

That is pretty good news. Even so, the totals are now 55 fatalities, and 139 confirmed ebola cases. Moreover, this case falling very near a fishing harbor / water taxi-way is still. . . very disconcerting. Here's the latest:

. . .On Twitter yesterday, the country's health minister Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, MBChB, MPH, said the confirmed case in Jinja involves a 45-year-old man who died at his home on Nov 10 and was buried on Nov 12. Health workers from a clinic where he sought care earlier obtained a sample from the man on the day he died. . . .

She said the man is a contact of a suspected case, his brother who traveled to Jinja where he was sick for 10 days and died on Nov 3. Ocero said the brother is listed as a suspected fatal case and is part of a cluster from Rubaga, which is in the Kampala area. . . .

Now you know. . . with tiny "dippin' dots" like snow pellets falling -- in between periods of light cold rain -- here. So it. . . begins. Smile.

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