Uganda: New Marburg case reported in Ibanda

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The person that died is Sharon Twinomuiuni.  Here is the information I have on her:

Correction - Edited to add:  I believe the new victim is not Sharon Twinomujuni listed below.

Mulago Hospital

Name:  Sharon Twinomujuni   - Relative

From:  Kitumba Sub-county, Kabale District

Adm:  10/21 Mulago Hospital

Adm:  10/19 Hospital’s Isolation Camp

Reconciled:  Private Clinic in Kisugu, Kampala

Confirmed:  Positive

Notes: 

·       Pregnant

·       Treated for Malaria in Kisugu Clinic

·       Traveled back to Kabale, had a miscarriage

·       Diagnosed & confirmed in Mulago Hospital

·       Alerted by the MOH when she was arriving so they could take precautions

·       10/23 – responding to treatment.  Stable condition.

·       Hospital is monitoring 1 Nurse and 2 Doctors who handled Twinomujini as she bled after miscarriage.  Not known at that time that she had Marburg.

·       Ministry of Health doctor had Sharon visiting, when symtoms were observed.  MOH has since been put on monitoring list.

Via The Sunday Monitor: New Marburg case reported in Ibanda. The whole report:

The deadly Marburg virus has claimed two more lives, raising the death toll to seven and scaling up the infected areas. 

Lydia Rusanyuka, 50, the mother to the former Kabale Regional Referral Hospital mortuary attendant, Mr Jason Tumukunde, succumbed to the disease in less than six hours after she tested positive. Another person was confirmed dead in Ibanda District, medical officials said. 

The Kabale District Health Officer, Dr Patrick Tusiime, told this newspaper yesterday that Rusanyuka, a resident of Bukora Village Kitumba Sub-county, died in the isolation centre at Rushoroza Health Centre III shortly after midnight. 

“A total of cumulative Marburg virus cases both probable and confirmed in Kabale District is now 14, the cumulative specimens collected so far are 14, the total number of admissions at the isolation centre is seven and the total number of people that got into close contact with the Marburg virus victims is now 198. The situation is becoming complicated,” Dr Tusiime said. 

Marburg experts currently in Kabale have released a report indicating that a new Marburg case has been confirmed in Ibanda. 

New Marburg case in Ibanda 

“The Ibanda case is of a 32-year-old woman, resident of Sigiria Village, Kihani Parish in Kinkye Sub-county. She was admitted at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital on October 19 and died five days later after having miscarriage. The specimens were collected from her body and they tested Marburg positive and a supervised burial was conducted. Seven people that got in close contact with the deceased have been listed and are being followed up,” the report issued by Dr Tusiime and the Marburg epidemic experts, reads in part. 

One of the Marburg victims, Mr Obed Tutegyerize, was discharged after specimens collected from him tested negative, six days after he was admitted at the isolation centre. 

“Tutegyerize lost his two brothers, a sister and a mother to Marburg virus. The specimens from him tested Marburg positive after he had escaped to Rukungiri for spiritual healing. The Marburg virus experts now camped in Kabale traced him and [he] was put in the isolation centre. Specimens were again taken from him and on October 26 and tested negative and was discharged,” Dr Tusiime said.