Everyone in close contact with the index patient has now spent 21 days isolated, with no Ebola viral eruption. So they've all been cleared and released. There were perhaps a few hundred additional contacts of contacts, that consented to be part of the clinical trial of the candidate vaccine, for this Sudan variant of Ebola. So far, none have shown significant adverse, off-target effects. Here's the latest, as we await a total of forty-two days, with no new Ebola cases -- in Uganda:
. . .Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.
World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone that “reflects the power of Uganda’s quick and coordinated response.”
Most of the Ebola patients were treated at the main referral facility in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
The lone Ebola victim was a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared in Kampala on Jan. 30. His relatives are among those later hospitalized with Ebola. . . .
Ugandan officials documented at least 265 contacts. . . they were monitored for signs of Ebola, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters in Kampala. . . .
Here is to keeping a good thought that these last ten days of the 42 day period prove uneventful. Onward, even as Tangerine 2.0 purports to do many a preposterous thing (things he has no lawful power to do -- same, Elon Musk). It is up to all of us to resist him in the courts, to prevent these various dread diseases. . . from overrunning our ability to scientifically contain them. Yikes.
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