Now Over 300 Contacts Of The Index Ebola Cases In Uganda Have Been Identified And Are Receiving The Sudan Variant Vaccine Candidate, Experimentally.

There are certainly now enough in the "n" -- to get a robust study result, this time -- on a Sudan variant vaccine candidate. And every precursor indication would suggest that it will be robustly effective and completely safe.

Still, 300 people -- as contacts (and potential latent hosts) is a daunting figure, when shoulder to shoulder in the markets, in a city of 1.8 million -- everywhere, on bustling and crowded streets (long before they could have possibly known). Here's that U. of Minn. / CIDRAP Ebola update, from Kampala -- of a day or two ago:

. . .The index case-patient was a 32-year-old male nurse who developed symptoms on January 19. He died 10 days later, with tests confirming Ebola Sudan. The second patient in the outbreak is the nurse's wife.

So far 298 contacts of the couple have been identified, with 7 confirmed cases. The WHO said there are two main clusters in the outbreak: a family cluster and a healthcare facility cluster. There are no further details on the healthcare facility cases, but the index patient visited a traditional healer and three separate health clinics before he died in Kampala. . . .

Now you know. . . onward. Resolutely -- even if we have to drag Tangerine 2.0, and his minions, across the finish line. We will do so. It is the right thing to do. And even if he ultimately cuts off the US's WHO aid. . . we will persist.

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