The public has been cautioned to avoid interacting with animals and birds to avoid
contracting diseases.
During the 11th Joint Annual Scientific Health
Conference held in Kampala, experts pointed at
lack of cooperation from communities as the
major factor that escalates the spread of
epidemics like Ebola, typhoid and Marburg.
Makerere University don at school of public
health Prof. Wabwire Mangeni says in the last 30
years, 20 new epidemics have been experienced
across the globe due to human association with
animals and birds.
Health experts now suggest that government
enacts a law that would force citizens comply
with guidelines issued when an infectious
epidemic breaks out in the country.
Meanwhile,
Ministry of health has assured the public that
there is no Ebola outbreak following a case in
Hoima where a person developed symptoms
similar to those of the heamorrhagic fever.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Rukia Nakamatte
says samples from the patient turned out
negative of Ebola, Marburg and Congo
heamorrhagic fever.
However, a team to carry out further
investigations in the area has been dispatched.