According to Dr. Amy Boore, Director of Global Health Protection at the CDC, one of the reasons Uganda stopped Ebola so quickly was due to identifying the species of the virus as the Sudan species.
Dr. Hadson Kunsa, an intern at the 90-mile-away Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda, had a routine day. According to testing, a woman who presented with significant abdominal pain had a perforated stomach. When he finally arrived for surgery, it was too late. No amount of resuscitation could save some of his shut-down organs.
At the time, Kunsa and his coworkers were unaware that they had just been exposed to Ebola, a rare and contagious virus with a death rate of up to 90%.
The warning indicators have been there in the past. It was the middle of September 2022, and earlier that week, a few other patients who had experienced similar symptoms had passed quite unexpectedly. The head of the hospital in Mubende stated, "One died on arrival at our hospital."
However, nob...
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